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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

Mad in America

Listen to the audio of the interview here. But it’s also about access to food, safe and reliable transportation, and other basic resources. Social prescriptions, like I said, also apply to food, money, housing support, legal support—because those things affect our health too, right? How old are you? I am 31 years old.

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In Palm Beach, farmworkers are ramping up pressure on Wendy’s to ensure worker protections

Work Life

” [Photo: Coalition of Immokalee Workers] The Fair Food Program has changed these dynamics on many farms, according to Rodriguez and other workers. The Fair Food Program was formally launched in 2011, after the coalition managed to come to an agreement with tomato growers in Florida.

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How the meatpacking industry exemplifies the challenges of American workers

Work Life

Angelina and Plácido began working at Tyson Foods , the largest meatpacking company in the United States, the year the Twin Towers fell. Tyson Foods was founded in Springdale, Arkansas, in 1935 and is still headquartered there. It is the second largest global meatpacking company. The coroner ruled it a suicide.

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Pigs in the Hospital: The Collapse of Venezuela’s Mental Health System

Mad in America

That they might prohibit the university, which has a tense relationship with the government, from continuing to develop its academic practice on these grounds. The pleas to avoid clashing with the government did not avert its demise. This means there are no public places to treat a person in crisis. But Why the Pigs?

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

Mad in America

Listen to the audio of the interview here. After that review ran, by the way, in my hometown newspaper, the Boston Globe —that’s a great thing to see in your morning newspaper—I had radio interviews cancelled, and frankly, no other major newspaper reviewed the book. It is, though, largely funded by the government.

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This is how America’s childcare crisis is killing careers

Work Life

Between them, they earned too much to qualify for government help. The dilemma is common in the United States, where high-quality childcare programs are prohibitively expensive, government assistance is limited, and daycare openings are sometimes hard to find at all. So she took on more work, delivering food for DoorDash and Uber Eats.

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interview candidates have stopped giving me their availability when I ask for it

Ask a Manager

This post, interview candidates have stopped giving me their availability when I ask for it , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. When I set up interviews with candidates, I send an email that has info on the position, what the phone screen looks like, what the process is, etc.