Health and Public Safety
September 11, 2009 -
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In the first full year of therecession, the nation's poverty rate climbed to 13.2 percent, up
September 10, 2009 -
Most of the media hype over President Obama's health care address to Congress last night has centered on Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's (SC) startling outburst of heckling.
September 9, 2009 -
Yesterday, Rep.
August 31, 2009 -
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released information showing there are 584 coal ash dump sites across the country -- almost twice as many as previously identified. The facilities are located in 35 states and concentrated in Appalachia, the Southeast, Midwest and Intermountain West.
August 27, 2009 -
In the months following Katrina, chilling reports surfaced of the euthanasia of patients -- also known as "mercy killings" -- at some of New Orleans' hospitals during the chaotic days following the flooding.
August 21, 2009 -
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest