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Budget expanding Minnesota health care, abortion access heads to governor

By Rosemarie Pittman

Minnesota lawmakers passed an 844-page “billosaurus” Monday that leans on a $17.5 billion budget surplus to expand medical, dental and child care benefits and fund new shelter options to address homelessness.

The health and human services budget includes priorities for a legislature controlled for the first time in a decade by the DFL, including increasing reimbursement rates and removing barriers to abortion services. Plans to dramatically increase access to MinnesotaCare were delayed a year, but

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Opinion: Urgent Demands for Transit, Health, Homeless Pressure California’s Budget

By Rosemarie Pittman
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A BART train in San Francisco. Courtesy of the agency

One could call it the “big squeeze.”

It’s the ever-increasing conflict between the state government’s current and projected tax revenues, which are drifting downwards, and the demands for billions of additional dollars for vital services, such as health care, homelessness and mass transit.

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In January, when Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his initial budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year that begins July 1, he

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WASPI campaigners hit by state pension age change set out 10-point plan | Personal Finance | Finance

By Rosemarie Pittman

WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners have sent a 10-point plan setting out their demands for how the investigation into the issue should be investigated.

The activists are calling for compensation for a generation of women born in the 1950s who were affected when the state pension age for women increased from 60 to 65, to make it the same for men and women. The state pension age then increased to 66, and further

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Rural health care disparities likened to biblical tower of Babel | Pennsylvania

By Rosemarie Pittman

(The Center Square) – Rural health care disparities persist because of cultural and structural incompatibility, providers say, leaving residents scattered across the state without access to the most basic services.

“The tower of Babel is real,” said Dr. Jeffery Cohen, of AlphaLab Health. “There’s a lot of smart people in healthcare. Unfortunately, they’re stuck in models they can’t get out of.”

Cohen’s comment references the Biblical story of the tower of Babel, which scholars believe

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State warns against eating fish from parts of Peconic River, Peconic Lake

By Rosemarie Pittman

Fish from parts of Peconic Lake and the Peconic River are “at risk” of being contaminated and are potentially hazardous if eaten, state health officials said Monday.

The Department of Health said testing found the level of so-called PFAS — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — high enough that anglers should not eat yellow perch caught in the lake and river, while all other fish caught in those waters should be limited to just four meals

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