Daily Edition for Tuesday, August 12, 2025
LAUSD Aims To Protect Health And Well-Being Of Immigrant Students, Staff: Los Angeles Unified school police, staff and community volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools when classes resume Thursday to help ensure the safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents reportedly handcuffed, detained and drew their guns on a 15-year-old boy with disabilities outside Arleta High School in a case of mistaken identity, officials said. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
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Considering a Life Change? Brace for Higher ACA Costs
By Julie Appleby
Consumers contemplating an early retirement or starting a business should calculate how Trump administration and congressional policy changes could increase their health insurance costs — and plan accordingly.
Experts Say Rural Emergency Rooms Are Increasingly Run Without Doctors
By Arielle Zionts
Some doctors and the groups that represent them say physicians’ extensive training leads to better emergency care, and that some hospitals are trying to save money by not hiring them. They support new laws in Indiana, Virginia, and South Carolina that require physicians to be on-site 24/7.
Daily Edition for Monday, August 11, 2025
Newsom Vows To Sue Feds Over ‘Extortion’ Of UCLA: Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday blasted Donald Trump’s demand for $1 billion from UCLA in return for millions of dollars in frozen federal research grants, describing the president’s move as an attempt to “silence academic freedom.” Read more from Politico and the Los Angeles Times. Plus, how UCLA's research faculty is coping.
Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos
By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Hannah Norman
Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse.
Listen: Regulatory Rollbacks and Federal Layoffs Threaten America’s Food Supply
By Stephanie Armour
The Trump administration’s anti-regulatory approach and cost-cutting moves risk unraveling the system of checks and balances that helps ensure the safety of the U.S. food supply, say consumer advocates and former employees of the FDA and Department of Agriculture.
A Guide To Finding Insurance at 26
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
It’s a difficult rite of passage for young adults without job-based insurance. Here are some tips for getting started.
Inside the CDC, Shooting Adds to Trauma as Workers Describe Projects, Careers in Limbo
By Andy Miller, Healthbeat and Rebecca Grapevine, Healthbeat
Fired-then-reinstated workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worry about the future of public health amid proposed agency downsizing.
California Taps Medicaid To Train and Recruit Behavioral Health Workers
By Christine Mai-Duc
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