A Florida-based company is now the nation’s largest weed corporation, leaving Black growers behind.
Health Insurance and Costs
The legal market has removed the threat of arrest, but brought with it a whole new set of challenges.
Coast to coast, the green rush is failing Black growers and entrepreneurs.
Con diabetes y sin seguro médico: así enfrentan la pandemia de COVID-19 los campesinos de California
"Alimentar a Estados Unidos es esencial y quienes hacen ese trabajo también deben ser tratados como esenciales", asegura este líder comunitario mixteco que perdió a tres familiares diabéticos, después de que se contagiaron con el virus.
Sustained coverage on surprise bills fueled public outrage and legislation. But the resulting regulations are far from perfect.
"Nadie estaba preparado para poder ofrecer información correcta a nuestra comunidad sobre este virus de una manera eficaz y verdadera en nuestros idiomas: mixteco, zapoteco, purépecha, entre otros", explica en primera persona un líder comunitario.
“More workers have died from COVID-19 in the last 18 months in the meat and poultry industry, than died from all work-related causes in the industry in the past 15 years,” as one expert testified.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic pain and heart issues now plague David Chenault and he is required to see a list of specialists, but none of them are in that part of the Delta.
Before Ben Gilmore was a senator, he lived in the Delta in southeast Arkansas and witnessed firsthand the region's struggles with health care, infrastructure, education and more.
Dr. Valencia Andrew-Pirtle began working in Blytheville more than 20 years ago as a family medicine specialist and, over time, she has learned the most dangerous disease Mississippi County faces is one she wouldn't have thought about decades ago.