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Most Recent in Environment:

1As Fossil Fuel Industry Invests Billions in New Texas Facilities, it Could Unleash a Huge Emissions Bomb

2Trump Has Kneecapped Another Environmental Safeguard. Could That Spur Expanded Uranium Mining in South Texas?

3Five Times the Effects of Climate Change Loomed Over Texas in 2019

4The EPA Faces Lawsuit Over Slaughterhouse Pollution in Waterways

5Report: As TCEQ Sits Idle, Polluters Double Illegal Air Pollution in 2018

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1ICE Quietly Lowers (Already Low) Standards at Some Immigrant Detention Facilities

2‘Life is a Fight’: Scenes from a Migrant Tent Camp in Juárez

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4‘Baby Jails’ Chronicles America’s ‘Shameful’ Treatment of Migrant Kids

52020: The Year Trump’s Wall Rises or Falls

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1A Solitary Condition

25 Texas Criminal Justice Stories to Watch in 2020

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4In Dallas, Churches Break the Law to Shelter Homeless People on Freezing Nights

5Why a Small Offense Shouldn’t Have Life-Altering Consequence

6Federal Report Flags High Rates of Sexual Abuse in Texas Juvenile Lockups

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2The Creature of Martin Creek Lake Won’t Die

3The Cost of Carve-Outs

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5Texas House Considers Free College For Students Experiencing Homelessness

6‘The Wolf is in the Henhouse’

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2In Texas, Thousands of Kids Lose Medicaid Coverage Each Month

3We Asked You About Health Care in Rural Texas. Here are Your Stories.

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6This West Texas Town is a Reproductive Health Void

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6Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

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3A World Without Immigrant Prisons

4Two New Books Explore the Limits of the #MeToo Movement in Texas and Beyond

5I’ve Lived in East Austin for 60 Years, and I Don’t Recognize it Anymore

6American Cities Weren’t Revitalized by the White ‘Creative Class.’ Immigrants Made Them Great.

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2Little Arthouse on the Prairie

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4Washington Crossing the Rio Grande

5Ghosts of the Baker Hotel

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4Why I Started a Book Club in the Harris County Jail

5A Chain Reaction

6Having My Period in Prison Was Awful. In Texas, That May Finally Change.

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3Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

4Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

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6Eye on Texas: Ghosts of the City

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1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

2Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

3Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

Tag Archives: Medicaid expansion

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.

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

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

Thu, May 19, 2016 |

Texas' premature birth rate is higher than the national average, and pregnant women of color are less likely to access prenatal care than are white women....Read More

The number of uninsured Hispanic children in Texas is dropping after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, but the state is still tied with Georgia for the highest rate of uninsured Hispanic kids in the nation.

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

Despite Progress, Texas Leads in Uninsured Hispanic Kids

Fri, Jan 15, 2016 |

The number of uninsured Hispanic children in Texas is dropping after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, but the state is still tied with Georgia for...Read More

by Ronnie Dugger

Texas Needs a Nonviolent Revolution at the Polls

Wed, Nov 4, 2015 |

What can one person who cares about others do when our dangerously pivotal Texas needs a nonviolent revolution? Something? Anything?...Read More

health care

by Daniel Blue Tyx

Insurgent Medicine

Physicians hope to revolutionize health care in the Valley with a simple prescription — access.

Tue, Sep 8, 2015 |

If community outreach and primary care for the uninsured save lives and money, why aren’t we doing more of it in places like the Valley? The answer lies partl...Read More

A special needs child reads at home.

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

UPDATED: Cuts Threaten Therapy Services for Disabled Texas Kids

Tue, Aug 25, 2015 |

Earlier this year, the Legislature passed a budget rider directing the Health and Human Services Commission to find ways to save on Medicaid therapy costs. The ...Read More

Wendy Davis speaking

by Forrest Wilder

Wendy Davis Needs to Be a Hero Again

Tue, Jul 29, 2014 |

Wendy Davis' campaign has been largely reactive, keying off Greg Abbott’s mistakes rather than articulating a vision for Texas. ...Read More

by Bill Minutaglio

Texas Media Underreports the Costs of Refusing Medicaid Expansion

Fri, Mar 7, 2014 |

Millions of Texas’ poor people remain uninsured, and their stories go largely underreported. ...Read More

Members of the Texas Chapter of ADAPT celebrate the United States Supreme Court’s upholding of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in front of the Texas Capitol.

by Melissa del Bosque

Q&A with Rep. John Zerwas on Lege Failure to Pass Healthcare Expansion

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 |

Medicaid expansion isn’t just about money; it’s also about lives....Read More

by Melissa del Bosque

The Clock is Ticking for Texas on Medicaid Expansion

Tue, Mar 5, 2013 |

Back in 2010 Governor Rick Perry compared the passage of the Affordable Care Act—aka Obamacare— to something like Godzilla crushing the Statue of Liberty. �...Read More

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