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Nursing home workers react to Biden’s ‘game-changing’ call for reform
Nursing home staffers — the majority of whom are women, disproportionately women of color — have kept centers running through unprecedented times. Now help could be coming.
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Abortion providers' main legal challenge to Texas’ six-week abortion ban is effectively over
Friday’s decision by the Texas Supreme Court could signal that similar abortion bans are likely to stay enforced and successfully survive legal challenges.
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Political pressure led to shutdown of Texas’ largest gender-affirming care program
Hospital administrators and doctors at GENECIS struggled to reconcile halting care with the knowledge that doing so could severely jeopardize patients' mental health, recordings of internal meetings show.
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Exclusive: A new bill could help frontline workers access mental health care through their insurance
The bill would guarantee more health coverage for firefighters, police officers, public school teachers and city and state workers, legislators told The 19th in an exclusive.
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Moving in with other adults has become a lifeline for single moms hit ‘tenfold’ by the pandemic
Single mothers, who have lost jobs at a higher rate than married parents, are turning to cohabitation as a way to get through the pandemic, get child care support and weather rising rents. Many are moving in with family, friends or other single moms.
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Republicans split on whether the government should block crucial gender-affirming care, poll shows
The survey results carry special significance for transgender conservatives, who are speaking out against legislation that has targeted trans youths.
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2022 elections are important, women say — but a poll suggests they may be too overwhelmed to prioritize politics
Finances are the leading concern for women, many of whom say they think life will never go back to the pre-pandemic ‘normal.’
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‘I don't know where it's safe': Family of trans child who dined with Ken Paxton is facing child abuse investigation
The Dallas-area family says it is under investigation by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and at risk of losing their kids.
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The only all-Black women’s unit sent to Europe during WWII is awarded a Congressional medal
Nearly eight decades after the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion served overseas, surviving members will receive the highest honor in Congress.