By Barbara DiPietro, PhD, Senior Director of Policy When Mother Jones — a fierce labor and union organizer — said this in 1902 she was fighting to improve the lives of miners and silk mill workers. Now, more than 120 years later, I borrow her words for our current struggle to end homelessness. Pray for the Dead… […]
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Etel Haxhiaj is the National HCH Council’s new Senior Policy Manager! Etel will be taking over production of our monthly Mobilizer newsletter, staffing our Policy Committee, leading our Congressional relations, and managing a number of our advocacy initiatives. Let’s get to know Etel a little better through the interview below: What have you learned from
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The U.S. Census Bureau released its annual report on income, poverty, and health insurance. It doesn’t look good.
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By Barbara DiPietro, PhD, Senior Director of Policy It’s summer and it’s hot, so let’s take a break from the usual focus on the things that are killing us (literally and figuratively) and instead focus on three things happening in the Medicaid space that are advancing life-affirming policies! 1. New Code for Street Medicine It’ll soon be
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by Barbara DiPietro, PhD, NHCHC Senior Director of Policy Last month, I reflected on the death of Jordan Neely in New York City and how our society kills people three different ways: through direct physical violence (Murder #1), through indirect policy violence (Murder #2), and through silent ascent violence (Murder #3). This month, I’m struck
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By Barbara DiPietro, PhD, Senior Director of Policy I can’t stop thinking about Jordan Neely—who was killed by another rider on a New York City subway car in the middle of the day on May 1 in full view of others. One witness joined in the killing, while others stood by and filmed it. No
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Question: Why are there four times as many left-handed people in the U.S. as there were ~100 years ago? Answer: Historic stigma and discrimination. Prominent criminologists and psychologists in the early 1900s considered left-handed people “primitive and abnormal,” “stubborn, rebellious, rigid people,” and people who “may signify homosexuality, incest, and perversion.” Did you know that schools used
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President Biden issued his budget on March 9, which outlined the Administration’s policy priorities and vision for federal spending in the next year. Important for the HCH Community, the HHS and HUD budgets include significant expansions to health care and housing programs, largely paid by making the rich pay their fair share in taxes. Key take-aways from our recently updated Appropriations chart and fact sheet of the
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