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Guns marketed for personal safety fuel public health crisis in Black communities
PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers shot him in the back nearly two decades ago, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. The bullet remains lodged in his spine.
“When you get shot,” he said, “you stop thinking about the future.”
He is anchored by his wife and child ...Read more
States advance medical debt protections as federal support turns to opposition
Lawmakers in several states are working to expand medical debt protections for patients, even after the Trump administration reversed course and told states they don’t have authority to take action on credit reporting.
In Alaska and Michigan, legislators are nonetheless advancing bills to keep medical debt off consumer credit reports.
The ...Read more
 
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