Tag: low incomes and poverty
When it comes to state residents’ health insurance coverage, Utah and New Mexico are polar opposites. Sixty percent of Utah residents are covered at work – the most nationwide. New Mexico employers cover only 36 percent – the lowest coverage rate. It follows that their Medicaid populations also differ. In Utah, the federal-state health insurance program…
J.D. Vance’s rural Kentucky roots, described in his book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” differ from my father’s family in southern Indiana in one important way. Vance’s violent, angry mother was a substance abuser with a trail of failed relationships in her wake. Vance carries the childhood scars. My dad’s family was a bunch of kind, reticent, teetotaling…
