Researchers Just Found a Hidden Cause of California’s Smog Problem
LPETTET/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Despite its progressive environmental policies, the state of California actually has the worst air quality in the nation, according to a 2017 report from the American Lung Association. More specifically, California’s Central Valley, which produces one third of the country’s vegetables and two thirds…
Fact Check: Trump Has Done Virtually Nothing to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
Win McNamee/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump promised during his State of the Union address Tuesday night to prevail in the battle against the opioid epidemic, pledging to be “much tougher on drug dealers and pushers” and help “get treatment for those in need.” Trump has long…
Study: Expanding Medicaid Means Patients Get Better Surgeries Sooner
Stephen J. Coddington/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid was expanded to include everyone who makes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line. (In 2017, that’s $16,642 for an individual or $33,948 for a family of four.) In 2012, however, a Supreme Court ruling allowed…
The GOP Wants to Slash Food Stamps. Here’s Why That’s a Stupid Idea.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress have publicly flaunted their desire to slash food aid for the poor. The deficit-swelling tax cut package they passed in late 2017 will embolden their efforts later this year, when the twice-a-decade farm bill—which funds the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
In its Quest to Kill Regulations, Trump’s EPA May Allow Teenagers to Handle Farm Pesticides Again
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In its ongoing zeal to nix regulations, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has yet another one in its crosshairs: a rule banning minors from applying pesticides on farms. In December, amid the frenzied debate over the GOP tax overhaul, the EPA announced in a release…
Republicans Just Tried to Claim that Medicaid Caused the Opioid Epidemic. Surprise, Surprise—They’re Wrong.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.)J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans seem to have found a new culprit to blame for the opioid epidemic: Medicaid. “Every time a hard working American pays their taxes, they are inadvertently funding drug dealers with a new supply of high powered opioids that are poisoning…