Jennifer Kucera has spinal muscular atrophy and needs around-the-clock care from Medicaid-funded providers to help her bathe, dress, and otherwise navigate her life. The nursing home where she got scabies, was punched in the face, and sexually assaulted is just three blocks away from her current home in Berea, Ohio. She spent three years in that nursing home and doesn't intend to go back.
According to social-science research, the No. 1 best thing for your well-being is your relationships. Research shows that not all social ties are beneficial. Relationships with people who are draining, critical, or otherwise difficult can compromise mental and physical health.
According to social-science research, the best thing for your well-being is your relationships. Relationships with people who are draining, critical, or otherwise difficult can compromise our mental and physical health. Researchers have even come up with a term for the people who wear us down: hasslers.
The author's father grew up in a poor farming family, but his mother came from money: her father was an early billionaire. His grandfather was a Greek immigrant from a prominent Greek shipping family in Athens. He was the only son in a family of daughters and he inherited a majority share of his father’s wealth and company. His sisters maintain that rather than provide for his mother, he sidelined them and invested in his own business and art collection.
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Philipp Witzmann is the CEO of Nebenan.de, a neighborhood platform where people who don't know each other make contact, help, and meet up. According to the FOCUS online series “More Us Again – Germany’s Last Stop” social cohesion in Germany is crumbling, but not all is as bad as we think.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a $277 billion state budget with retroactive pension increases for public-employee unions. The core of state spending was up nearly 10%, more than double last year’s already-high inflation rate. The state is more reliant than ever on taxes coming from a narrow sliver of high earners.
The Trump administration has issued final rules on how states should ensure that Medicaid enrollees prove they're working or completing other activities. The deadline was set last year in the GOP tax-and-spending law known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Medicaid agencies are scrambling to rework IT systems and make sure they have staff to effectively enforce the rules. The new rules will apply to people covered through Medicaid expansion.