skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Trump heads to Texas after catastrophic flooding, avoiding criticism he's heaped on other governors; Trump threatens a 35% tariff on Canadian goods, and he may double what most other nations are charged; USDA funding pause could stall conservation momentum in MI, nation; New Ohio weapons plant to bring over 4,000 jobs; Report: Occupational segregation leads to pay gap for MA women.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

NOAA nominee says he supports cutting the agency's budget. Many question why Ukraine's weapons aid was paused. And farmers worry how the budget megabill will impact this year's Farm Bill.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Rural Americans brace for disproportionate impact of federal funding cuts to mental health, substance use programs, and new federal policies have farmers from Ohio to Minnesota struggling to grow healthier foods and create sustainable food production programs.

Fellowship Aims to Bridge Gaps in Georgia's Health-Care System

play audio
Play

Friday, September 9, 2022   

Navigating the complex maze of health insurance can be daunting even for seasoned professionals. In Georgia, one woman is hoping to make the process easier, especially for single parents.

Cassenda Nelson, a single mother of four, said she's had her fair share of health complications. She said her kids are healthy for the most part, but after one daughter contracted COVID-19, her blood pressure skyrocketed - and the insulin coverage from their insurer was gone without explanation.

Now, as part of a fellowship in a program through Voices for a Healthy Georgia, Nelson travels to underserved communities in places such as Albany to steer others toward the help they need.

"Advocating is something that I do," she said. "I like to be a voice for those that don't have a voice or don't know how to execute what they need."

Voices for a Healthy Georgia is part of the New Georgia Project, a nonpartisan voter-registration group founded by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. The organization is facing an ethics complaint about its spending, which its leaders say is politically motivated heading into the November elections against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Peach State has the third-highest uninsured rate in the nation - an estimated 1.4 million Georgians without health coverage. Nelson said health care is important for all, and it's part of why she is committed to helping anyone and everyone navigate their way through the system, "and reach out to whomever we need to touch bases with - to get things started, to get things changed, to come up with a resolution that will suit more than one. Just one person, one family, one child."

Nelson said most of her work involves listening, and that Voices for a Healthy Georgia is committed to finding ways to help communities that are negatively affected by health inequities and health disparities.


get more stories like this via email
more stories
According to the Trump administration's 2026 fiscal year budget, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will cut 22% of its workforce, in addition to the workforce reductions that have already taken place. (Adobe Stock)

Environment

play sound

Wisconsin's agriculture industry could see both wins and losses under the new federal budget. Climate change isn't a priority for the Trump …


Environment

play sound

Hoosier businesses across the state are feeling the ripple effects of rising tariffs and shifting trade policies, especially in farming, …

Social Issues

play sound

Some 15 community and faith-based organizations gathered again this week outside the Geo Group ICE detention facility in Aurora where longtime Denver …


Authors of the law may add enforcement language, such as fines for parents or involvement from the prosecutor's office, during the committee process. (Adobe Stock)

Social Issues

play sound

By Garrett Bergquist for WISH-TV.Broadcast version by Joe Ulery for Indiana News Service reporting for the WISH-TV-Free Press Indiana-Public News Serv…

Social Issues

play sound

More than 400 teen artists will gather this Saturday in Southern California to learn about equity in arts education. The 3rd annual Arts Advocacy Day …

A seed drill used by New Mexico farmers to plant cover crops causes minimal disturbance to the soil. (photo: courtesy NMhealthysoil.org)

Environment

play sound

New Mexico farmers finding it more difficult to grow historic crops are taking up conservation techniques to meet the challenge. Drought, water …

Environment

play sound

Despite last-minute concessions in the Trump administration's budget, which removes alternative energy tax incentives, rural Alaska power providers …

Environment

play sound

"Don't go into the water" is a warning Illinoisans may want to heed. A 2024 study released this week found all state-border beaches on Lake Michigan …

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021