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HIV Patients Asked to Pay More Under Obamacare

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HIV Patients Asked to Pay More Under Obamacare  - Some HIV advocates see the limited offerings as part of an intentional move by insurers to scare away HIV patients in order to keep their risk pools full of healthy  ...

Covered California aggressively targets LGBT community

Covered California aggressively targets LGBT community  - "When you think about populations like the African-American and LGBT communities that have experienced discrimination in healthcare, these reforms are more  ...

Giving LGBT families a voice in Washington

Giving LGBT families a voice in Washington  - We met with other adoptive families and with members of Congress discussing issues of foster care, adoption and the concerns of LGBT families. Sen.

African LGBT activists seek international support

African LGBT activists seek international support  - NEW YORK — African LGBT activists on Monday called upon the international community to do more to support the continent's gay rights movement.

Homeless Youth Alliance, San Francisco Youth Homeless Shelter ...

Homeless Youth Alliance, San Francisco Youth Homeless Shelter ...  - A crucial resource for homeless youth in San Francisco, including a large number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) individuals, is facing closure  ...

Kidnapped for Christ to Premiere at Slamdance

Kidnapped for Christ to Premiere at Slamdance  - Kidnapped for Christ, a documentary about the abuse of LGBT and other young people at an evangelical Christian reform school, will premiere in January at the  ...

Cosmetic Surgery on the Rise Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Cosmetic Surgery on the Rise Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities  - Many ethnic groups view "beautiful" differently, yet no matter the background, more and ... The survey found that African Americans and Hispanics were most  ...

Obama apologists crying wolf about race

Obama apologists crying wolf about race  - Their history of racism , especially in the South, is deemed sufficient to prove their current ... What I mean is that African-Americans are no longer oppressed to the  ...

Diabetes identified as risk factor for liver cancer across ethnic groups

Diabetes identified as risk factor for liver cancer across ethnic groups  - The number of new cases of hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States tripled in the past three decades, with Latinos and African-Americans experiencing  ...

Potential biological factor contributing to racial disparities in prostate ...

Potential biological factor contributing to racial disparities in prostate ...  - Researchers have uncovered a potential biological factor that may contribute to disparities in prostate cancer incidence and mortality between African - American   ...

US Latinos struggle with HIV stigma

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US Latinos struggle with HIV stigma  - The rate of new HIV infections among Hispanic men is almost three times higher than that among white men, and the rate of new HIV infections among Hispanic  ...

Most ads feature Caucasians

Most ads feature Caucasians  - Five per cent of the ads featured people of African descent, 3 per cent people of Indian appearance, with Middle Eastern, Latino and Pacific Islander people   ...

Broadband can help communities far and wide through education

Broadband can help communities far and wide through education  - Broadband is one of America's great success stories. And Internet service providers are doing much of the story telling through the unprecedented levels of  ...

What Chevron and ExxonMobil are Doing to Create More American ...

What Chevron and ExxonMobil are Doing to Create More American ...  -  America's education system received some sobering news last week with the release of the latest Program for International Student Assessment report.

Beware Educational Hysteria

Beware Educational Hysteria  -  Education Secretary Arne Duncan called the results, a "picture of educational ... Such results should trouble anyone concerned about America's economic future  ...

School Board vote on hiring Teach for America recruits comes amid ...

School Board vote on hiring Teach for America recruits comes amid ...  - The Buffalo Board of Education is expected to vote on a resolution Wednesday that would allow the district to hire up to 30 Teach for America teachers each year  ...

The cruel choice black women face: Between education and safety

The cruel choice black women face: Between education and safety  - Going to school in America hasn't gotten much safer for black girls and women .... And the fact that, in America , everyone is guaranteed 12 years of education for  ...

11 Foreign Education Policies That Could Transform American ...

11 Foreign Education Policies That Could Transform American ...  - We learned the results of the latest PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) last week, and American students performed the same on the  ...

Even Record Poverty Can't Derail Immigration Reform

Even Record Poverty Can't Derail Immigration Reform  - The CRS does not foresee an economic improvement that could lift 46.5 million Americans , the largest total since 1959, out of poverty . CRS identified two groups  ...

'You didn't build that,' conservative style

'You didn't build that,' conservative style  -  America is a welfare state in which wealth and prosperity don't come from free ... but in 1776,” the senator said at a recent Heritage Foundation poverty forum.

Can Policy Changes Help the Struggling Lower-Middle Class?

Can Policy Changes Help the Struggling Lower-Middle Class?  - Even at 250 times federal poverty level, lower-middle class incomes leave workers ... "Many families in America's struggling lower-middle class -- defined to  ...

America's Greatest Shame: The US Has More Poor Kids Than Any ...

America's Greatest Shame: The US Has More Poor Kids Than Any ...  - As Americans face unprecedented anxiety over the economy, enormous debt and rising poverty levels, the burden seems almost too much to comprehend for  ...

Poverty Stricken Sierra County Has Much at Stake in Spaceport ...

Poverty Stricken Sierra County Has Much at Stake in Spaceport ...  - The Sante Fe New Mexican has an in-depth story on what's at stake for poverty -stricken Sierra County, whose residents a tax hike to build Spaceport America   ...

UN Addressing Latin American Poverty

UN Addressing Latin American Poverty  - Costa Rica News - The U.N. recognizes a weak economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, characterized by increasing food costs and slowing poverty   ...

Eclac's Social Panorama 2013: Extreme poverty slows down in Latin ...

Eclac's Social Panorama 2013: Extreme poverty slows down in Latin ...    - SANTIAGO, Chile—The number of Latin American people living in poverty in 2013 climbed to around 164 million—27.9 per cent of the population—of which 68  ...