Mar 08 2010
Report Details Income and Ethnic Factors in LA Women’s Health
| the entire program
A new report released ahead of International Women’s Day documents the that role income and ethnicity play in the health of the women of Los Angeles County. Issued by the County’s Department of Public Health, the study’s key findings examine women’s access to care, social and physical environmental factors and how they relate to incidence and mortality rates. …
A new report released ahead of International Women’s Day documents the that role income and ethnicity play in the health of the women of Los Angeles County. Issued by the County’s Department of Public Health, the study’s key findings examine women’s access to care, social and physical environmental factors and how they relate to incidence and mortality rates. …
Comments Off on Report Details Income and Ethnic Factors in LA Women’s Health
Students, teachers, parents, and faculty members took to the streets all across the state of California and the nation yesterday to protest cuts to K-12 schools, colleges and universities. More than 100 events took place in over 30 states in what organizers dubbed the “March 4th Day of Action to Defend Public Education.” Massive state budget shortfalls and …
A spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Philippines announced yesterday that custody of forty-three detained health workers would be transferred to the National Police. The so-called Morong 43 were arrested last month on February 6th and charged more than a week later with illegally possessing firearms and explosives. The Armed Forces claim that the doctors, nurses and …
Yesterday, twelve Democratic Congressional representatives, led by Bart Stupak, vowed to vote down President Obama’s health care reform bill. At issue is language in the bill that they perceive allows for the use of public funding of abortions. In fact, the bill includes stipulations that require insurers to separate public and private premiums, using only private funds …
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of 
A new report by a group of prominent economists this week warned that banks are still engaged in high-risk investing activity that is making another, potentially bigger financial crisis not only likely, but inevitable. The group includes Rob Johnson of the United Nations Commission of Experts on Finance, plus Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel to oversee …
A new study by the Southern Poverty Law Center has confirmed fears of a growing white American nationalist movement with violent tendancies. Rage on the Right, reveals that extremist, so-called patriot groups grew 244 percent since 2009. Additionally the number of armed militias in the US nearly tripled in number from 44 in 2008 to 127 in 2009. …
On Monday the Brooklyn, New York district attorney stated that no criminal acts were committed by ACORN employees who were secretly filmed giving financial advice to a pair of right-wing activists posing as a pimp and prostitute. This manufactured controversy fueled right-wing criticism of community organizing in the past 2 years at the same time that the …
