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‘It’s unfair:’ Coal miners urge Congress to improve black lung protections and benefits
WHIO via Yahoo News· 1 week agoCoal fuels much of our electricity. The workers who mine for it put their lives and health at risk....
717,000 Black children could be missing out on Social Security payments
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter Dr. Sarah Williams lost her husband Clarence to lung cancer in 2015, her grief was soon...
The scourge of black lung: Still a terrible problem we’re not doing enough to stop.
Lexington Herald-Leader McClatchy Articles via AOL· 2 years agoOpEd: The federal Black Lung Program was enacted in 1969, just prior to the death of my grandfather,...
Bill OBoyle: Casey, colleagues introduce bill to improve Black Lung Benefits Program
The Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 18—This week, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-Scranton), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced the Black Lung Benefits Improvement Act.
Manchin, Kaine and others reintroduce black lung benefits improvement act
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 15—Legislation designed to help miners suffering from black lung disease and their survivors get the benefits they need has been reintroduced in Congress by senators from West Virginia, ...
Simple lung cancer screening test is easy, painless — and could save your life
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAnthony Patterson got lucky — twice. His first stroke of good fortune came in 2011, when a fall led...
Young, Black Athletes Have a Higher Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest—Here's One Survivor's Story
Health via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOmar Carter had NBA dreams, but an on-court cardiac arrest at just 25 years old changed his life—and...
President Signs Historic Toxic Exposure Bill Extending Benefits to Millions of Veterans
Military.com via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJust minutes after President Joe Biden signed legislation that gives thousands of sick post-9/11...
Manchin, Kaine and Warner reintroduce Relief for Survivors of Miners Act
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 10 months agoJul. 21—Democrats Joe Manchin, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner have reintroduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that seeks to ease the burden on surviving family members of coal miners who have passed ...
Bill OBoyle: DCED approves $36M in tax credits to businesses. $1.2M in Luzerne County
The Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoNov. 26—WILKES-BARRE — Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Rick Siger this week announced the approval of $36 million through the Neighborhood Assistance Program ...