Senate HELP Committee Holds a Hearing on the Healthcare Workforce

kow5101 February 21, 2023

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, which deals with health policy, held a hearing on shortages in the healthcare labor force on Feb. 16. Committee members discussed potential solutions for widespread workforce shortages affecting the healthcare industry after hearing witness testimony from medical schools and colleges. Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) is a member of the HELP Committee.

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2023 Veterans Day retail discounts, free meals and other offers

Veterans Day 2023 is Saturday, November 11. This Veterans Day discounts list will continue to be updated as we learn of more nationally available Veterans Day discounts, meals or other ways businesses and organizations want to give back to Veterans.

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5 Essential Frameworks for Preventing Violent Child Death

The U.S. has a violent child death problem. Developing strategies to prevent violent child deaths death from firearms and traffic crashes is a demanding task that requires consideration of numerous upstream, interrelated, and tangential issues. To help safety advocates develop strategies to prevent violent child death, we compiled five frameworks to help: Understand and explain …
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Network_News December 8, 2022

Addressing Rural Health Inequities in Medicare

Approximately 61 million Americans live in rural, tribal, and geographically isolated communities across the United States. These communities often experience significant health inequities. Compared to urban Americans, rural Americans are more likely to have heart disease, stroke, cancer, unintentional injuries, suicide risk, and chronic lung disease, and have higher death rates from COVID-19. As clinicians, […]
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lad3 February 11, 2023

5 Unique Ways to Improve K-12 Education for Latino Students

Early education can make a huge impact on the lives of children — especially its effects on economic opportunities, college prep, and finding a good-paying job. Yet it is far too common for Latinos and other disadvantaged students to face barriers for quality K-12 education. That’s why The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit policy organization, recently …
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Network_News September 21, 2021

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Inside the U.S. Government’s New Investment in Latino Education

Education is critical in childhood development, yet Latino kids across the U.S. face systemic injustices in their schools and communities. Whether it is living in child care deserts, language issues and immigrant status, unengaged parents, childhood trauma, discipline, segregated school districts, and a lack of state funding in—many Latinos are left behind in education compared …
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Network_News October 7, 2021

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