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Mountain Town Confronts an Unexpected Public Health Catastrophe

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KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. I listen for the songs of birds, but all I can hear are generators. Learn more about KFF.

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Cómo una regla federal propuesta sobre el calor podría haber salvado la vida de trabajadores agrícolas

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KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Jeremy Young, productor senior de Fault Lines en Al Jazeera English, colaboró con este informe.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

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“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. All signs point to systems rooted in the nation’s painful racist history, which even today affects all facets of American life.