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DECEMBER 9 – DECEMBER 15, 2016
VOLUME 24 NO. 50
30 MILLION UNINSURED
A new study states that if Obamacare is repealed, many Americans – including millions who voted for Donald Trump – will lose their health insurance. BY TONY PUGH MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU /TNS
WASHINGTON –Partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act through a budget reconciliation bill could cause nearly 30 million Americans to lose health insurance and 9.3 million to lose government subsidies to help them purchase marketplace coverage, according to a new analysis. The additional 29.8 million uninsured – 22.5 million from the elimination of the Medicaid expansion alone – would push the national total of the uninsured to 58.7 million in 2019, according to the analysis by
researchers at the Urban Institute. The analysis is to be published Wednesday morning. That’s more than the 50 million who lacked coverage in 2009 before the health law was passed, said John Holahan, a senior fellow at Urban Institute and co-author of the report.
Trump voters suffer More than four out of five of the newly uninsured would come from working families; 56 percent would be non-Hispanic Whites. Coverage losses would be greatest in the 31 states and the District of Columbia that expanded eligibility for
Medicaid under the ACA, the report found. In those states, the number of uninsured would rise from 14 million to 32.5 million. Non-expansion states would see an increase from 14.9 million uninsured to 26.2 million. California would lead all expansion states with nearly 4.9 million people losing coverage while nearly 1 million would become uninsured in Pennsylvania, 775,000 in Washington state and 486,000 in Kentucky. Among non-expansion states, the uninsured would grow to more than 2.5 milGARY FRIEDMAN/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS lion in Texas, more than 2.2 Fremont High School students in in Los Angeles filled out health surveys and See OBAMACARE, Page A2
gathered information about Obamacare in September 2013.
PEARL HARBOR ATTACK, 75 YEARS LATER
Finally laid to rest
Getting ‘strapped’ Non-Whites buy guns after Trump wins SPECIAL TO THE TRICE EDNEY NEWS WIRE FROM THE AFRO AMERICAN
African-Americans and other racial minorities in America are arming themselves, fearing a continued surge in hate crimes since the election of Donald Trump in November, according to NBC News. Four times as many non-Whites are flocking to gun stores, firearm business owners told NBC News. Additionally, Black gun groups such as the National African American Gun Association say attendance has doubled since the election.
Trump sets tone
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Pallbearers remove the flag from the casket holding the remains of Navy Fireman 3rd Class Edwin Hopkins as he was buried in New Hampshire on Oct. 15. His remains were identified almost 75 years after he was killed on Dec. 7, 1941, at the age of 19, while serving on the battleship Oklahoma.
Minorities “feel that racists now feel like they can attack… just because the president is doing it,” Earl Curtis, the African-American owner of Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly, Va., told NBC News. Racial tension in America had already been brewing. The election of President Obama in 2008 was met by cross burnings, racial epithets hurled at African Americans and scrawled on various surfaces, Black figures hung on nooses, effigies of the president and the vitriolic rhetoric of the Tea Party. The racial temperature continued to rise as the unrepentant killing of unarmed Black men and boys by police was answered by nationwide protest and the sparking of the Black Lives Matter movement. Into that maelstrom stepped Trump, whose See GUNS, Page A2
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ALSO INSIDE
Feds investigating bias in St. Pete-area schools ST. PETERSBURG – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into whether the Pinellas County school district systematically discriminates against Black students and students with disabilities. The Pinellas County School Board’s long and well-documented history of racial discipline disparities was recently profiled in the EPIX docu-series, “America Divided.”
Investigations, complaint The investigation also came after a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series by Tampa’s daily newspaper, the Tampa Bay
A Tampa Bay Times newspaper series revealed that Pinellas County ‘is the worst place in Florida to be Black and go to public school’ because of underpaid and inexperienced teachers, violence in the schools, poor physical plants, and disproportionate punishment meted out to Black students. Times, entitled “Failure Factories. The series revealed that Pinellas County, which includes St. Petersburg, “is the worst place in Florida to be Black and go to
public school” because of underpaid and inexperienced teachers, violence in the schools, poor physical plants, and disproportionate punishment meted out to Black students.
The federal investigation also follows the Southern Poverty Law Center’s complaint alleging that the school board violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, citing the disproportionate rates of arrests and restraints on Black students and students with disabilities.
‘A great step’ “No child should go to school in fear that the color of their skin or disability will determine whether they are maced, arrested or suspended,” said Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director of Advancement Project’s national office, in a press statement. See SCHOOLS, Page A2
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