Posts Tagged as "Health"

SCIG Passes, But the Fight isn’t Over Yet

Mar. 15, 2013 / By
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So it begins. What has been a long uphill battle, might get even longer.

More than a week has passed since The Port of Los Angeles’ Board of Harbor Commissioners approved the Environmental Impact Report for construction of a cutting-edge shipping yard on the edge of Long Beach by railroad giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF)...

Health Insurance Marketplace

Mar. 11, 2013 / By
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When key parts of the health care law take effect in 2014, there’ll be a new way for individuals, families and small businesses to get health insurance...

Health Fair Attracts Inland Empire’s Uninsured

Mar. 11, 2013 / By
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following video shares the experiences of attendees at the WeConnect health and resource fair held in Riverside, California on March 2, 2013...

LB Students Ask For Wellness Centers in High Schools

Mar. 1, 2013 / By
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For two months last year, 17-year-old Polytechnic High School Senior Amanda Em was sick and didn’t seek treatment...

When Sexual Assault Is Reported, Long Beach’s Forensic Nurses Keep Things SANE

Feb. 27, 2013 / By
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By Annie Merkley, Long Beach Post

Bruised and broken, with trembling hands and a tear-stained face, calling 911 after a rape can be a difficult decision to make...

ACA: Health Insurance Marketplace

Feb. 25, 2013 / By
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When key parts of the health care law take effect in 2014, there’ll be a new way for individuals, families and small businesses to get health insurance...

Thousands of Uninsured Flock to Fresno Health Fair

Feb. 18, 2013 / By
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New America Media, Video, Article: Viji Sundaram / Video: Silicon Valley De-Bug, Posted:Feb 17, 2013

Video (above): New America Media conducted exit interviews with attendees at the “WeConnect” health and resource fair in Fresno, California, on Saturday, February 9...

CCEJ Celebrates Healing and Forgiveness After Violence

Feb. 16, 2013 / By
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Last Tuesday the California Center for Equality and Justice (CCEJ) held their 22nd annual Interfaith Prayer Breakfast at the Long Beach Convention Center...

Healthy School Food Journalism Award

Feb. 2, 2013 / By
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Earth Day Network has joined forces with author and food activist Michael Pollan, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and Alice Waters’ Edible Schoolyard Project to launch the first annual Healthy and Sustainable School Food Journalism Award...

One Woman and LA’s Free Health Care Program

Jan. 28, 2013 / By
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New America Media, Video, Min Lee, text: Viji Sundaram, Posted: Jan 27, 2013

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Social Security, Medicare Safe From Fed Cuts—Until March

Jan. 14, 2013 / By
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L.A. Watts Times/New America Media, News Analysis, Thandisizwe Chimurenga, Posted: Jan 12, 2013

LOS ANGELES–The dreaded “fiscal cliff” of government spending cuts and tax raises that was to take effect on January 1 has been averted for now, thanks to an agreement by the White House and Congress reached last week...

North Long Beach Residents Struggle to Find Healthy Food

Jan. 10, 2013 / By
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Text By CSULB Reporter Candace Manriquez, Video by CSULB Reporters Kim Norlund and Julian Cabrera

In any given direction from where Griselda Florinda Gomez lives on the west side of North Long Beach, there is a major grocery store within two miles...