PILL MILLS AND THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC
Florida in the mid-2000s dispensed more oxycodone than any other state, in part due to pain clinics with lax prescribing requirements (no medical exam and ample choice of drugs) called pill mills. After major law enforcement efforts and stricter regulations on opioid prescriptions, Florida saw over a 50% drop in pain clinics, although many continue to operate.
UNTREATED TB ENDANGERS MIGRANT WORKERS AND STALLS TB ERADICATION
The U.S. agricultural industry is fueled almost entirely by the work of migrants and seasonal laborers, three-quarters of whom are foreign-born. This group holds the highest risk of tuberculosis exposure and transmission (66.5% of all U.S. TB cases), but is perhaps the least likely to seek testing and treatment due to cost, convenience, lack of culturally appropriate services, and fear of deportation or punishment. Accessible treatment for this high-risk, sometimes hidden, population is necessary to eliminate TB in the United States.
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SAME RESUME, DIFFERENT PAY
The gender pay gap even extends to women shortly after college when they have similar experience and qualifications to their male counterparts. Men between the ages of 21 and 24 with a college degree are paid an average hourly rate of $20.87. Women are paid $17.88. In other words, women make $2.99 less on average per hour than men despite having exactly the same amount of education and usually similar working experience. This is an annual difference of $6,000.
While the pay gap between male and female high school graduates has lessened since 2000, the gap between recent college graduates has increased. This is especially remarkable as women earn their bachelor’s degrees at a higher rate than men: 20.4% of women between the ages of 21 and 24 have a bachelor’s degree compared to 14.9% of men. —Qing Wai Wong, PHP Fellow
Graph from Economic Policy Institute, Straight out of college, women make about $3 less per hour than men, Economic Snapshot, Elise Gould and Teresa Kroeger, June 1, 2017.
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