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U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock (left) and Jon Ossoff of Georgia, together with another high-ranking Democrat, have actually asked the Government Accountability Office to examine the expense of Georgia's Medicaid work requirements after KFF Health News' reporting. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc through Getty Images) 3 Democratic senators asked the nation's leading nonpartisan federal government guard dog on Tuesday to examine the expenses of a Georgia program that needs some individuals to work to get Medicaid protection. The program, called "Georgia Pathways to Coverage," is the country's just active Medicaid work requirement. Pathways has actually cost 10s of millions in federal and state dollars on administration and consulting charges while registering 5,54...

This story initially appeared on Grist and belongs to the Climate Desk cooperation.Ariana Tibon remained in college at the University of Hawaii in 2017 when she saw the picture online: a black-and-white photo of a male holding an infant. The caption stated: "Nelson Anjain getting his infant kept track of on March 2, 1954, by an AEC RadSafe employee on Rongelap 2 days after ʻBravo.'"Tibon had actually never ever seen the guy previously. She acknowledged the name as her great-grandfather's. At the time, he was surviving on Rongelap in the Marshall Islands when the United States performed Castle Bravo, the biggest of 67 nuclear weapon tests there throughout the Cold War. The tests displaced and sickened Indigenous individuals, poisoned fish, overthrew standard food practices, and triggered ca...

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Democratic Senators Ask Watchdog Agency To Investigate Georgia’s Medicaid Work Rule

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