Stories tagged with: crisis
Were all ticking time bombs: Budget cuts gut 9/11 health protections as community braces for crisis
(NEW YORK) -- The 9/11 health program that monitors and treats thousands of people exposed to toxic dust during the 2001 terrorist attack is under threat — again.A wave of staffing cuts and agency turmoil has thrown the World Trade Center Health Program ...
Invisible crisis: America’s caregivers and the $600 billion unpaid cost of their labor
(CHICAGO) -- Janice Will was diagnosed in 2012 with Parkinson's, a condition that causes parts of the brain to deteriorate, causing tremors and balance problems.“When she broke her femur and it was close to the artery…it could have been lights out,” Brandon Will, ...