Healthcare Systems & Policy

The state has been progressive on the issue, becoming the third state to end the “tampon tax” in 2016, and introducing and implementing several bills into law in 2021 and 2022.

Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Like so many other American cities, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Woonsocket, Rhode Island has a growing population of unhoused residents.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health, Food and Nutrition

A former mill city of roughly 43,000 people in Rhode Island is a testing ground for a new treatment program designed to bend the rising curve of opioid overdose deaths.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health