Archive for September 2024

Millions of Americans are endangered by extreme heat due to federal policies that steer billions of dollars away from the nation’s hottest regions…. The programs treat extreme heat as a discomfort rather than today’s deadliest weather events by denying millions of people federal aid to cool their homes and barring homeowners from using tax credits and government-backed mortgages to pay for window air conditioners.

What can pull people on opposite sides of the political spectrum to cooperate with one another, if they cannot agree on what is factually correct?

The Liberation Health Model is a clinical framework that acknowledges the sociopolitical factors that contribute to a person’s mental health challenges. The model posits that the problems of individuals and families can only be understood with a rooting in the political, economic and social conditions of the person’s context.

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted so-called “pronatalist” measures in the belief that doing so will defuse a demographic time bomb. These range from tax breaks and housing benefits for couples who have children to subsidies for fertility treatments.

The Chat-Tea Train initiative, which started in October 2023, was led by Shona McEleney, a Social Work Assistant based at Glendermott Medical Practice.

At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.

At least 50 U.S. lawmakers or members of their households are financially invested in companies that make military weapons and equipment—even as these firms “receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally-crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation” a report published Thursday revealed.