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¿QPM? S6 EP 3: What recovering looks like for Latinx Students in the Midwest after COVID-19
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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COVID on campus. What was it like for Latinos?

  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 13:31
¿QPM? S6 EP 2: What recovering after COVID-19 looks like for a Latinx with a double-lung transplant
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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The pandemic produced many firsts for Latinos, including a double lung transplant.

  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 13:00
What pregnancy during COVID-19 looks like for undocumented or unemployed women
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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We return to Amy Gastelum for a first person look at pregnancy during the pandemic.

  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 10:56
¿QPM? S5 EP 8: La lucha después de la nube de polvo
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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Ordered to stay in their homes early in the pandemic, residents of the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago are hit by a toxic dust cloud from a ...

  • Added: May 28, 2022
  • Length: 15:00
¿QPM? S5 EP 7: Giving back to la comunidad one meal at a time
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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Food became a critical measure of equity during the pandemic.

  • Added: May 28, 2022
  • Length: 10:00
¿QPM? S5 EP 6?: What does collective care for Latinos look like?
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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More on how Latinos care for each other during the pandemic.

  • Added: May 28, 2022
  • Length: 14:20
¿QPM? S5 EP 5: Helping meet the ever changing needs in the community
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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How did the Latino community respond to the pandemic?

  • Added: May 28, 2022
  • Length: 14:30
Can More Time on Medicaid Lower Maternal Deaths? - Two-way
From: Tradeoffs
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:51
Can More Time on Medicaid Lower Maternal Deaths?
From: Tradeoffs
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 17:33
Her son was killed in Afghanistan last year. This is her first Memorial Day as a Gold Star mother.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Cheryl Rex,right, is comforted by her mother, Clarinda Montsuoka, near the grave of Rex's son at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Orange County, California. Lance Corporal Dylan Merola was killed in Afghanistan in August 2021., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
Cheryl Rex's son Dylan was among the last American victims of the Afghanistan war. In the months since his death, she's visited his grave almost ev...

Bought by Texas Public Radio and KWMU St. Louis


  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
More than a three-day weekend: A small movement tries to return Memorial Day to its original meaning
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Nassau County, N.Y. Executive Bruce Blakeman shows a video of the Israeli Memorial Day moment of silence. Blakeman is calling for a similar county-wide initiative on Long Island. , Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront
Leaders in Long Island, New York want people to pull their cars off the road and stop what they're doing for two county-wide moments of silence to ...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 3
The Supreme Court will decide if Guardsmen and reservists can sue states for employment violations
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Former Texas State Trooper LeRoy Torres reviews legal paperwork with his wife Rosie in their Robstown, Texas home in 2019. Torres resigned from his job after returning home from Iraq in 2008. He said the state refused to make job accommodations for a disa, Credit: Carson Frame / American Homefront
When National Guard members and reservists deploy, a federal law is supposed to preserve their civilian jobs and benefits. But in some states, gove...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KPBS, and KUT


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
Misunderstood and sometimes parodied, the U.S. Space Force is educating the public about its mission
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Troops operate the Space Based Infrared System satellite constellation from Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado. The system enables service members to report ballistic missiles and space launches, nuclear detonations, and other data to the President, S, Credit: JT Armstrong / U.S. Space Force
The newest military service branch is responsible for protecting satellites and other objects in space, which it expects will be critical parts of ...

Bought by KRPS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KPBS, and KUT


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 5
How One Doctor Is Prepping for a World Without Roe
From: Tradeoffs
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A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 1
For the Ukrainian military, a long partnership with U.S. National Guard units is paying dividends
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing at Moffett Air National Guard Base in Sunnyvale, Cal. in September 2021. The visit was part of a decades-long partnership between the California National , Credit: Duane Ramos / California National Guard
The State Partnership Program has quietly become a powerful tool for diplomacy and modeling U.S. values around the world.

Bought by Texas Public Radio, WRFA-LP, KUT, and KMXT


  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
The military is trying to learn more about long COVID. Troops who have it worry about their careers.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Navy corpsman Maria Potts-Szoke performs a COVID-19 test on Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan Jan. 24. The test was part of a study that's monitoring the long term health of Marines who had earlier tested positive for COVID-19., Credit: Alex Fairchild / U.S. Marine Corps
Little is known about COVID-19 cases in which symptoms persist for months. Affected service members may have trouble performing their duties or get...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUT, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KPBS and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 7
Advocates worry military vaccine challenges could jeopardize other religious freedom cases
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The Navy granted Petty Officer First Class Juwairiya Webb an accommodation under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to wear a hijab while on duty. Some attorneys worry that religious challenges to the military's COVID vaccine mandate may endanger futur, Credit: Carlos Castillo / KPBS
The military is taking a hard line on troops seeking religious exemptions to the COVID vaccine mandate. Lawyers say that could have consequences fo...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KUT, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 5
New York's Hunter College is falling apart
From: Julian Abraham
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Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:43
Inconsistent military domestic violence policies allow troops with criminal histories to buy guns
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A memorial honors the victims of a 2017 mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A federal judge ruled that Devin Kelley might not have been able to buy the weapon he used in the shooting if the military had reported his cri, Credit: David Martin Davies / Texas Public Radio
More than four years after a former airman killed 26 people at a rural Texas church, advocates say the military still needs to do more to prevent v...

Bought by KRPS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 4
How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation
From: Tradeoffs
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After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 22:11
Veterans are at higher risk of eating disorders. The pressure of military life may be one cause.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Chandler Rand accepts her trophy at the 2018 All American Marathon at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Rand was the first female to complete the race., Credit: Fort Bragg Family & MWR
A VA study concluded that veterans experience bulimia at about three times the civilian rate.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, KWMU St. Louis, KUT and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 8
Military families often have to move every few years. Critics say it's disruptive and unnecessary.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The following language must be included in any online post of this story, and the language is encouraged for on-air use: "This story was produced by the American Homefront Project, a public media collaboration that reports on American military life and v, Credit: Eric Schmid / St. Louis Public Radio
Constant and sometimes sudden moves can disrupt military families' finances and cause challenges with their children’s schools and medical care.

Bought by KRPS, Texas Public Radio, KUT, North Country Public Radio, KPBS and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 6
Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction
From: Tradeoffs
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The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate ch...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 1
A New Era in the Fight Over Medicaid Premiums
From: Tradeoffs
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The impact of charging people to use Medicaid and how phasing out premiums could threaten one state’s Medicaid expansion.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 20:23
The VA wants to close and replace older hospitals. But there's opposition in some communities.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The Fort Meade, S.D. VA hospital, built in 1956, is among the facilities that would close under the VA restructuring plan. It would be replaced by a new hospital approximately 30 miles away in Rapid City., Credit: Department of Veterans Affairs
The VA wants to close and replace older hospitals. But there's opposition in some communities.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KUT, KPBS, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 5

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