Tag: Homelessness
My email that I sent to WKOW regarding their coverage of Wisconsin’s “Death with Dignity” bill
CORRECTION/OMISSION: Disability Rights Perspectives in Feb. 27 “Death with Dignity” Coverage
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Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
If you think the collapse of the Soviet Union was good for the people, think again.
In the 1990s, the Soviet Union fell apart, and Russia began moving towards a market economy. However, this transition brought with it a severe economic collapse, widespread poverty, and a sharp rise in organized crime.
If you think the collapse of the Soviet Union was good for the people, think again.
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Trump’s Prescription for Poverty: Forced Psychiatry and the Criminalization of Homelessness
Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people
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New Research Shows Risks of Coercive Psychiatric Treatment
A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is raising difficult but necessary questions about a practice that affects hundreds of thousands of lives each year: involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.
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This equates to a 79% increase in risk of being charged with a violent crime, and almost a doubled risk of dying by suicide or overdose, in the three months following evaluation for hospitalization.
The researchers also found hospitalization often caused destabilization. It led to declines in employment and earnings, and increased use of homeless shelters. It did not lead to better outpatient care or more consistent medication use.
Capitalism is Anti Family
“I’m sorry we don’t have office supplies. We have to bring in our own pens and paper and marking pens, because the VA doesn’t have it.”
‘These cuts will hurt veterans.’ Concerns voiced about Trump administration VA budget reductions.
He said that through the years they were able to modernize and now he relies on the VA Hospital in Madison for his primary health care.
He said he was there recently and became alarmed to hear about cuts now under the Trump administration.
“When I was up there six weeks ago for an incident, I asked one of the nurses, ‘Can I get a pad of paper and a pen to just write some stuff down in the interim between the examinations,’” the veteran recounted. “And she said, ‘I’m sorry we don’t have office supplies. We have to bring in our own pens and paper and marking pens, because the VA doesn’t have it.’”
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“Don’t just thank me for my service. Tell me what you’re doing to make this country better,” he said.
Protected: Personal update: Trying to look at the bright side of things
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