The New York Senate and Assembly budget proposals each include funding the Fair Pay for Home Care Act, which advocates say is crucial to address a shortage of home health care workers. The bill would raise the minimum wage for home-care workers as high as $22.50 an hour for certain regions of the state. Sen. .
National rankings found North Dakota s health care system does well in terms of overall performance, but access and affordability are problem areas, prompting more discussions about connecting more populations with quality care. This past week, the North Dakota Voices Network hosted a forum on health equity issues. Whitney Fear, a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at Family HealthCare and member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, spoke about barriers facing Indigenous populations. .
Experts are calling on the FCC to consider recent studies linking fertility problems to radio-frequency radiation from cellphones and other wireless devices. The Environmental Health Trust just placed five additional studies onto the FCC docket, which found wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation can impact the ovaries and reduce testosterone. Dr. .
Burg writes, "A 2% allocation of $17 million from the federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to address the child care crisis in North Dakota is only a down payment on what needs to be a much bigger investment into child care."
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