Tag: Medicaid
Taking out a high-cost payday loan is an act of desperation, and people on federal disability are some of the biggest users. Nearly 6 percent of households under 66 and on disability use payday loans, compared with 4 percent of the general population, according to Haydar Kurban at Howard University, who did the analysis for…
The recent rise in Americans’ death rates is a crisis for the lowest-earning men. They are dying about 15 years younger than the highest-earners due to everything from obesity to opioids. Women with the lowest earnings are living 10 years less. But healthcare policy is doing what it’s supposed to in the states that expanded…
