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Three members of Congress just introduced a bill aimed at one of the quietest bottlenecks in American health care: the cost of training nurses. The Educating Future Nurses Act, from Reps. Lauren Underwood, Jen Kiggans (VA-02) and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), would create permanent federal funding for hospitals to partner with …

by Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder May 19, 2022 WASHINGTON — U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Robert Califf told Congress Thursday that the infant formula shortage will likely begin to improve in the coming days, though he declined to explain to unhappy lawmakers why his agency didn’t act sooner on a …

Last week, in a bipartisan vote of 276-149, the House of Representatives passed Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney’s (D-NY) Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act. The legislation will ensure that all nursing mothers have protections in the workplace by expanding them to nearly 9 million employees not currently covered …

No Black woman has ever been elected governor, and no Black women currently serve in the U.S. Senate. But some candidates are hoping to change that.  Errin Haines Originally published by The 19th Black women candidates could make gains — and possibly history — in 2022 across the ballot, with a …