Where Affordable Care Act insurance coverage has dropped most in WA
Washington’s rural counties saw the largest drops in insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act after the Republican-controlled Congress failed to extend subsidies that helped consumers afford the plans…Garfield, San Juan, Franklin, Pacific, Wahkiakum and Asotin counties all saw drops above 20%. Continue reading at Washington State Standard. (Getty)
Final 2 victims recovered from site of southwest Washington mill implosion
The victims who died at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility are: Gilbert Bernal, 52; brothers Tyler Covington and Brad Covington, 29 and 27; Robert Wilson, 48; Dale Miller, 54; Jared Ammons, 35; Braydon Finkas, 38; Clinton, or CJ, Doran, 26; John Forsberg, 51; Norman Barlow, 58 and Dillon Miller, whose age was not identified in the press conference. Continue reading at Washington State Standard. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland)
Their families helped the US fight a ‘secret war’ against communism in Laos. Now ICE is deporting them
Washington state is home to one of the largest communities of Laos refugees in the country. Under the Trump administration, many are facing new scrutiny from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. For decades, people from Laos who got a deportation order were able to stay and work in the U.S. That’s because Laos wouldn’t take them back. Under pressure from the Trump administration, those deportation flights have picked up. Continue reading at KUOW. (Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez)
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