Turning Local Impact Into Global Headlines

Turning Local Impact Into Global Headlines

Featured Story: The Boston Globe

A First Of Its Kind, R.I. Launches SNAP Program That Provides Extra Benefits For Fruits, Vegetables

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Washington Post

The costs of cutting canine testing

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Rhode Island Current

Hold the fries. Forgo the soda. R.I. kids’ menus could get a tad healthier under proposed bill.

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WPRI

RI Health Dept. applauds kids meal bill, but can’t enforce it

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NBC News

Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field

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Washington Post

HIV Research in Crisis: Funding Cuts Threaten Critical Progress

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Boston Globe

‘Complete chaos’: Trump’s funding freeze sends R.I. nonprofits scrambling

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Boston Globe

Potential Medicaid cuts raise alarm for states: ‘What do Trump and the Republicans think will happen to these people?’

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The Guardian

Trump makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘Setting us back decades’

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The Providence Journal

Health Care Groups Can Help Fix RI’s Food Insecurity Crisis

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