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Double the Funding for the Department of Health and …

WEBView a PDF of the letter here. March 13, 2024. The Honorable Robert Aderholt Chair, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and …

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Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap to Advance Health Equity

WEBClosing this gap would provide coverage for the first time to about 2.2 million low-income people [1] in the 12 states [2] that have refused to take the option to expand …

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200+ Civil Rights, Health Care, and Community Groups …

WEBDear Secretary Becerra: In just two years, the Biden-Harris Administration has made incredible progress promoting health equity and bringing millions of people the financial …

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Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap to Advance Health Equity

WEBView PDF of this document. September 29, 2021. CLOSE THE MEDICAID COVERAGE GAP TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY. Dear Senator, On behalf of The …

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Coalition Letter to President Biden and Federal Agencies …

WEBCoalition Letter to President Biden and Federal Agencies on Voting EO Progress. Voting Rights Resources 03.2,23. View a PDF of the letter here. Dear President Biden, …

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Unveiling Health Care's Hidden Stories: The Power of …

WEBMuch of the content in this blog was inspired by comments given by Mara Youdelman, managing director of federal advocacy at the National Health Law Program, during our …

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Civil Rights Principles for COVID-19 Vaccine Development …

WEBWe put forward these principles to provide a framework and recommendations for civil rights and COVID-19 vaccines. Equity must be paramount in …

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Community Safety Agenda: Public Safety Needs a Public …

WEBThe community safety agenda includes three bills that directly address community health and preventative public safety and that would enact evidence-based methods like …

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Letter Urging NIMHD to Designate People With …

WEBView a PDF of this letter here. August 30, 2023. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD. Director. National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. National Institutes of …

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How Current Transportation Policy Affects Access to Health Care

WEBLack of access to affordable transportation is a major contributor to health disparities. It isolates low-income people from health care facilities and forces families to spend a …

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Advocacy Groups Sign-On Letter Urging Release of Section 1557 …

WEBUnfortunately, in 2020, the Trump administration finalized new regulations drastically rewriting the Obama-era regulations and purporting to severely limit Sec. …

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COVID-19 Is a Civil and Human Rights Issue

WEBCOVID-19 Is a Civil and Human Rights Issue. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the walls in America between who can and cannot afford resources like health care and child …

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Black Mamas Matter: Getting Black Mothers and Babies the Care …

WEBAccording to the CDC, Black mothers are three to four times more likely than White mothers to die from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. CDC data from 2011 reports …

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The Fight for Reproductive Justice: Pass the Women’s Health …

WEBThe Women’s Health Protection Act is a long-overdue federal recognition of the right to access abortion. And we cannot afford to wait any longer. For too long, people across …

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Advancing Health Equity Through Disaggregated Race/Ethnicity …

WEBCharly Shane Gilfoil is a staff attorney with the National Health Law Program, an organization that advocates and litigates to advance quality health care access for all.. …

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The Leadership Conference Applauds Crucial Update to …

WEBFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/ LINK Contact: Mattie Goldman, [email protected] WASHINGTON – Jesselyn McCurdy, executive vice president for government …

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Disaggregation Nation: A Landscape Review of State Race

WEBDisaggregation Nation: A Landscape Review of State Race & Ethnicity Data Collection is a project of The Leadership Conference Education Fund. The Education Fund was founded in 1969 as the education and research arm of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the nation’s oldest and largest civil and human rights coalition of more

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Why the Census Matters for Disability Data Inclusion

WEBA 2021 report by the National Disability Rights Network describes a pattern of historically low decennial census participation rates for people with disabilities, and the Census …

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Supreme Court to Rule Again on Abortion: A Primer on FDA v.

WEBHere’s what you need to know ahead of the Supreme Court’s oral argument in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on March 26.. Why was the FDA sued? A group of anti …

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America’s War on Drugs — 50 Years Later

WEBJustice Reform Resources 06.29,21. By Ignacio Diaz Pascual. This month marks the 50th anniversary of America’s War on Drugs, a government-mandated operation beginning …

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