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Caring Does Not Pay

The Health Care Blog

Required staffing ratios and other regulations make child care exceedingly expensive for parents. Doctors, lawyers, nurses, sanitation workers – none of those people can go to work if they don’t have anywhere to put their children.” . Well, we’re in 2022, and Ms. Sefton was right.

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Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Taint Rural California Drinking Water, Far From Known Sources

KFF Health News

Exposure to PFAS, a group of thousands of compounds, has been linked to health problems including cancer, decreased response to vaccines, and low birth weight, according to a federally funded report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Contamination in sewage mostly comes from industrial discharges.