Health & Human Services
‘Love Your Block’ Grants Headed to Rural and Urban Cities
Each city will receive $100,000 and expert help from Cities of Service to quell the negative impact of abandoned and deteriorating properties.
States Embrace Vaccine Mandates Despite Potential Worker Exodus
“No one’s in panic mode here.”
The States Where Afghan Evacuees Will Resettle
Forty-six states will receive Afghan evacuees, including special immigrant visa holders who assisted the United States military.
State Lawmakers Push to Allow Residents to Contribute to Abortion Access Fund
A bill would allow New York residents to contribute on their tax returns, allocating money to nonprofit organizations that help women travel and pay for abortions.
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New Tools Help State and Local Governments Battle Ransomware, Other Big Disasters
When governments find themselves being ransomed, their choices are typically to pay, which will undercut their ability to deliver key services to their communities due to budget restrictions, or not pay, resulting in the immediate inability to serve their communities and the loss of key data that will inevitably plague them for years afterwards.
Forceful Vaccine Messages Backfire With Holdouts. How Can It Be Done Better?
COMMENTARY | A communication strategy that is sensitive to psychological reactance could empower the holdouts to willingly get vaccinated instead of grudgingly comply with a mandate, writes a communication scientist.
Missouri Is the Next Front in the Covid Culture War
Can Eric Schmitt, Missouri’s anti-mandate attorney general, sue his way to the U.S. Senate?
Secretly Removing a Condom During Sex is Technically Legal. One State is Poised to Change That.
Lawmakers in California approved legislation to ban “stealthing.” If signed into law, the state would be the first to explicitly outlaw the practice.
State Mandates Can Help Improve Nursing Staff Shortages
States are creating alternative approaches to solve the heightened problem of filling nursing jobs, according to a report based on American Hospital Association data.
Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number Is Losing Meaning
A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have mild or asymptomatic cases.
Jim Crow Tactics Reborn in Texas Abortion Law, Deputizing Citizens to Enforce Legally Suspect Provision
The new law that bans most abortions uses a method employed by Texas and other states to enforce racist laws in the 19th and 20th centuries that aimed to disenfranchise African Americans.
Best and Worst Cities for Mental Health Care in America
Denver tops the list for best places while Dallas is in last place, according to a recent report.
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