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...fielding calls is a stressful one, says McCourt, but the specialists "are very passionate about helping people understand what is available and making sure they are empowered." The HIAS specialists gain insight into which states offer affordable solutions and which states are not a good place to suffer through a major illness. Generally, states in the southeastern United States are the most challenging...
...second argument, advanced by Attorney General Brown, is that the most important rights found in the constitution are inalienable and not subject to changes by a simple vote of the majority, because they are too important. That argument, too, seemed to suffer under scrutiny from some justices, who asked how the court was supposed to figure out how to draw the line between rights that can't be taken away and those that are subject to amendment...
...message that some members of our community are more expendable than the next. Service employees made sacrifices so their families could live better in even the best of economies. They saw no perks or benefits, even when the endowment grew at astronomical rates. Yet they are the first to suffer now that university budgets are in crisis...
...pollution to protesters from Appalachia, where coal-mining has stripped the land bare - the message wasn't about polar bears or sea levels but the essential injustice of climate change. Unjust because in the U.S. and around the world it is those least responsible for climate change who will suffer the most from warming, and because it is a form of "generational theft," as one activist put it, with the young standing to inherit a ruined Earth. "My generation has blown it," said Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City, one of several politicians who joined the march...
...better address the need for affordable addiction and mental health treatment. The event began with an introduction by Minnesota Congressman Jim Ramstad, who talked about finding himself in a Sioux Falls jail in 1981 before finally seeking treatment for his addiction. According to Ramstad, over 26 million people currently suffer from addictions—only 16 million of whom have health insurance. But even those with insurance usually can not get coverage for mental health. Ramstad called mental health provisions the “single most ineffective policy” in the health care system?...