By: Chris Tobias | Editorial credit: Consolidated News Photos / Shutterstock.com As the threat of a government shutdown looms over Washington once again, progressive advocacy group MoveOn is turning up the heat on Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, demanding they refuse to support any spending bill that doesn’t include full protections for health […]
Editorial credit: Sheila Fitzgerald / Shutterstock.com Updated August 6, 2025 — Across the U.S., including California, New Jersey, Oregon, and Minnesota, DACA recipients are set to lose their Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Basic Health Program (BHP) coverage starting August 25, 2025, with most state marketplaces terminating plans by August 31. What Changed? In June 2025, […]
By: Fran Smith |centerforhealthjournalism.org Dr. Eleanor Fleming was nine months into conducting a five-year federally funded study of unconscious bias in dentistry when the government cancelled her grant in April as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to health and science research. Like many researchers who abruptly lost funding in recent months, Fleming was […]
Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Advanced Care Staffing Recruited Nurses from Abroad and Subjected Them to Exploitative Contracts 71 Former Nurses Who Were Forced to Pay Illegal Fees Will Receive Restitution NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured more than $660,000 for foreign-born nurses who were subjected to illegal labor trafficking […]
Editorial credit: Ben Von Klemperer / shutterstock.com NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement after reports that the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce are impacting the World Trade Center Health Program: “Recklessly cutting the staffing, funding, and resources that ensure 9/11 first responders and survivors get […]
Editorial Credit: Karolis Kavolelis/shutterstock.com Largest NYC hospital tries to stop safe staffing arbitration hearing and fails New York, N.Y.—On Thursday, Aug. 22, lawyers for NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital (NYPBMH) and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) went to federal court in Brooklyn. NYPBMH attempted to obtain an injunction to block an arbitrator from hearing evidence […]