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GOP states embrace Uber, Lyft to take low-income patients to medical appointments

BY: - November 2, 2023

This month, Mississippi becomes the latest state to partner with ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to ferry residents to their medical appointments. It’s a bid to improve overall health in a state where advocates and medical groups have called health care a crisis that’s getting worse. Ryan Kelly, executive director of the Mississippi […]

Changes in state election laws have little impact on results, new study finds

BY: - July 17, 2023

In recent years, U.S. politics has been consumed by partisan fights over states’ election policies. But a new study by two political scientists is causing a stir by finding that state legislators’ changes to election laws — both those that tighten election rules in the name of integrity, and those that loosen rules to expand […]