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As a doctor in training more than 20 years ago, she cared for a teen boy who died from a degenerative neurological condition linked to his #measles #infection as an infant, when he was too young to be vaccinated.

“There are really bad, scary things that we can protect our #children from,” she said.

#Trump#Musk#RFKJr

#Trump cuts threaten free #vaccine program for #kids amid #measles #outbreak

The #Vaccines for #Children program is funded by the U.S. Centers for #Disease Control & #Prevention [#CDC] & administered by state #PublicHealth officials. With an annual budget of roughly $5 billion, the vaccines program is responsible for about half the jabs administered to #US children every year.

#Aporophobia #HealthInequity #poverty #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #law #USpol
reuters.com/business/healthcar

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An overhaul of the #housing agency comes on the heels of a congressional deal to fund the government through Sept that increased some housing spending yet did not keep pace with rising rents & the growing demand for federal #aid. The #funding gap could result in about 32,000 #voucher recipients soon losing access to federal #housing aid… on top of additional cuts once funding runs out in a pandemic-era program that expanded voucher availability.

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Federal #voucher programs currently provide assistance to ~2.3M #LowIncome #families, acc/to the govt’s estimates, who enroll through their local public-#housing authorities. The #aid is part of a broader universe of #RentalAssistance programs that are set to exceed $54B this fiscal year. But the annual demand for these subsidies is far greater than available funds, creating a sizable wait list as rents are rising nationally.

#Trump's highest tariff will kill tiny African kingdom of #Lesotho

A 50% reciprocal #trade tariff on Lesotho, the highest levy on #Trump's long list of target economies, will kill the tiny Southern African kingdom that Trump ridiculed last month, an economic analyst there said.

Lesotho, which Trump described in March as a country "nobody has ever heard of", is one of the world's poorest nations with a GDP of just over $2B.

#geopolitics #economy #economy #Aporophobia
reuters.com/world/africa/trump