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According to estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly a quarter of children growing up in rural America were poor in 2016, compared to slightly more than 20 percent in urban areas.
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NPR
Money

Report: Rural poverty in America is ‘an emergency’

"We are just above Russia, Kuwait and Bosnia."

7 years ago

A group of women in the community of Mariana, in Puerto Rico, meet everyday to cook for their neighbors. They say after the storm, the work and camaraderie have eased depression. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Home-cooked meals and sisterhood — an antidote for Hurricane Maria blues

Still reeling after lasts year’s storm season, women in the town of Mariana, Puerto Rico, spend time together and prepare meals for others to ease depression.

7 years ago

Listen 5:20
A 1943 photograph of a detention hospital for infected women in Leesville, LA.
Radio Times
Health

The American Plan: the government’s incarceration of ‘promiscuous’ women

Guest: Scott Stern The United States government incarcerated tens of thousands of “promiscuous” women in the ...

Air Date: May 31, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
The L Street river beach in Belmar, New Jersey. (Google image)
Down the Shore
Community

Raw sewage exposure forces closure of Belmar river beach

Officials say sewage overflow contaminated a New Jersey beach's water with unsafe levels of bacteria, forcing its closure.

7 years ago

Latyra Blake, of The People's Paper Coop, an initiative of The Village's, helps community members make special paper with plant seeds embedded. Once the paper dries it can be buried to grow the plants.  (Darryl C. Murphy for WHYY)
Community

Memorializing losses — violent and otherwise — at WURD event in North Philly

Though addressing violence and its resulting trauma was at the heart of the project, some people remembered loved who passed away without violence.

7 years ago

Cyclists at
Philadelphia’s 14th Annual Ride of Silence on May 16th, 2018. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Radio Times
Urban Planning

Making Philly safer for cyclists

Guests: Jim Saksa, Sarah Clark Stuart, Erick Guerra   34-year-old Pablo Avendano, a bike courier, was riding in ...

Air Date: May 25, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:28
Emergency room doctors from the University of Colorado School of Medicine take part in a new kind of firearm training. (Courtesy of Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine)
The Pulse
Health

To better counsel patients, doctors try handling firearms themselves

Emergency medicine doctor Emmy Betz wanted to get more comfortable with guns. Pistol instructor and family physician Michael Victoroff had a proposal for her.

7 years ago

Listen 12:55
a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market
Politics & Policy

Philly officials: DHS proposal would penalize legal immigrants for kids’ public assistance

The latest immigration battle between the federal government and cities like Philadelphia: public assistance programs, such as food stamps and Medicaid.

7 years ago

(Isaac Brekken/AP Photo, file)
Health

N.J. considers making it easier for smokers to get help quitting

The legislation calls for providing Medicaid coverage for medications and counseling for tobacco cessation, not just the meds.

7 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf has designated eight schools in Pennsylvania as certified academic clinical research centers to help bulk up the meager federal research on medical marijuana. (AP file photo)
Politics & Policy

Wolf OKs clinical research on medical marijuana at 8 Pa. schools

Designating the schools as certified academic clinical research centers will help bulk up the meager federal research on medical marijuana, governor says.

7 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney and Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall Long announce a three-year action plan to combat addiction and address mental health issues. (WHYY/Paul Parmalee)
Health

Delaware readies coordinated effort to fight addiction, improve mental health care

Gov. Carney: “We know there’s a huge cost. There’s no price you can put on the loss of a loved one. And that motivation needs to be with us as we implement this action plan.”

7 years ago

Radio Times
Health

Intimate partner violence

Guests: Susan Higginbothem, Tony Lapp, Azucena Ugarte The disturbing abuse allegations by four women against New ...

Air Date: May 14, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Residue from tobacco smoke can end up in indoor air even in nonsmoking spaces. (Prawitr Sae Wa Ni/EyeEm/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

Tobacco smoke residue can become airborne again indoors

Drexel researchers suggest that after becoming gaseous again, smoke residue compounds can attach themselves to tiny air particles that come inside through an HVAC system.

7 years ago

Oak tree pollen (Emma Lee/WHYY News)
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

It’s been an unusually bad allergy season. Here’s why it may be getting worse

It's been an unusually bad season for allergy sufferers. There is more pollen in the air than normal for this time of year, and it may not get much better anytime soon.

7 years ago

Listen 5:37
A man in a red shirt holds a lit cigarette in his right hand
Health

Drexel study: Tobacco smoke residue can become airborne again indoors

You might be breathing chemical residue from tobacco smoke in indoor spaces where no one has smoked for years.

7 years ago

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