USC
Associate Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine at USC.
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Luanne Rohrbach
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FROM Luanne Rohrbach
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Trump administration quietly cuts funds for teen pregnancy prevention programs The Department of Health and Human Services recently cut more than $213 million from teen pregnancy prevention programs nationwide. They were five-year grants that began during the Obama administration. Grantees were mostly professors or community health organizers. Some researchers in Los Angeles were shocked they were cut off with no notice.
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George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes."