Health and Human Services Commission

A young adult loads a foldable wheelchair into the back of a sedan type car. Personal community-based attendants wages are pegged at a shockingly low $10.60/hour.

Impossibly Low Wages Hurt Community-Based Caregivers and Clients

Texas Health and Human Services Commission and legislators don’t stick up for disabled Texans and those who care for them.

How We Got Here

by Sophie Novack

State Officials Tried to Cut Women’s Health Care During a Pandemic. It’s a Clear Reflection of Priorities.

Neglected in Care

by Elena Mejía Lutz

A patient gets her blood pressure checked at the Waco Planned Parenthood.

Auditor’s Office Asked to Investigate Anti-Abortion Group’s Health Care Contract

by Andrea Grimes

Planned Parenthood

Anti-Abortion Group Set to Receive Sizeable State Contract for Women’s Health Services

by Andrea Grimes

In Texas, pregnant women of color are less likely than white women to access prenatal care, and black and Hispanic babies have higher infant mortality rates.

Experts: Texas Must Tackle Racial Disparities in Prenatal Outcomes, Premature Births

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

Apr 15, 2016

The Texas Miracle #3: The Gospel of Soup

Tune into our weekly podcast, with all the news you need — and some you wish you didn't — about the Lone Star State.

by Andrea Grimes

A patient gets her blood pressure checked at the Waco Planned Parenthood.

What Will Texas’ New Repro Health Safety Net Look Like?

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

An anti-abortion religious group claims that "ghost abortions" have had a significant detrimental impact on the American economy.

Ghost Abortion Busters

Texas lawmakers' crusade against evidence-based research has made this anti-abortion pseudoscience too hot to touch.

by Andrea Grimes

Child welfare advocates, social workers and asylum-seekers described sterile, prison-like conditions in Texas' immigrant family detention centers, which the state is currently considering licensing as child care facilities.

Health Agency to Press Forward with Licensing Child Detention Centers

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

A patient gets her blood pressure checked at the Waco Planned Parenthood.

After Planned Parenthood Ouster, More Medicaid Births and Less Birth Control

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

A patient gets her blood pressure checked at the Waco Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood Ouster Leaves Waco Cancer Patients Without Services

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta