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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Analysts say the tax bill moving quickly through Congress benefits corporations, rich professionals and wealthy families – at the expense of the deficit and ultimately everyone else. Republicans have promised that the tax bill would raise wages. But they admit the bill...
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PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE SHAFTER, California. – Luchando para reducir los elevados números de enfermedades y muertes por calor entre los trabajadores agrícolas en su amado Valle Central, una adolescente preocupada de California ha creado una aplicación para conectar a granjeros, contratistas y trabajadores agrícolas a través de relojes Apple,...
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PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE SHAFTER, Calif. – Fighting to reduce the high numbers of heat illness and deaths among farm workers in her beloved Central Valley, a concerned California teen has created an app to connect farmers, contractors and farm workers through Apple watches that provides instant health data and...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES – The #Me Too social media campaign that went viral following accusations that movie producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or raped a number of women is now taking to the streets, starting with a march and rally in Los Angeles this Sunday. Tarana Burke,...
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Kevin Patrick Allen Public News Service KANSAS CITY, Mo. – There is hope beyond the headlines, according to a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics, even as research shows children and teens are taking their lives by suicide in greater numbers. Dr. Shayla Sullivant said...
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Andrea Sears Public News Service NEW YORK – Civil rights organizations have filed lawsuits to block President Trump’s ban on military service by transgender people from going into effect. A presidential directive issued on Friday August 25th bars transgender individuals from enlisting, prohibits coverage for certain medical procedures and...
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Eric Tegethoff/Alfonso López-Collada Public News Service PORTLAND, Ore. – Agosto 31 fue el Día Internacional de la Conciencia de Sobredosis, una fecha para visibilizar la lucha que los expertos médicos en Oregón y en todo el país libran contra la creciente epidemia de esta causa prevenible de muerte. Y...
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Shelly Palmer “I don’t want to be Jewish anymore.” My grandmother looked sympathetically at her seven-year-old grandson and asked why. “Everyone hates us, the Nazis killed us, and I don’t want to be killed just because I’m Jewish.” During the course of that afternoon, my grandmother told me the...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES — Immigrant-rights groups are calling President Trump’s proposal to cut legal immigration by half racist and mean-spirited. On Wednesday August 2nd, the president endorsed the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act, or RAISE Act, which would favor English-speaking, high-skill immigrants...