Author: Meghan Hoyer
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Outcry over racial data grows as virus slams black Americans
WASHINGTON • As the coronavirus tightens its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through a vulnerable population — black Americans. Democratic lawmakers and community leaders in cities hard-hit by the pandemic have been sounding the alarm over what they see as a disturbing trend of the virus killing African Americans…
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Trump choosing white men as judges, highest rate in decades
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is nominating white men to America’s federal courts at a rate not seen in nearly 30 years, threatening to reverse a slow transformation toward a judiciary that reflects the nation’s diversity. So far, 91 percent of Trump’s nominees are white, and 81 percent are male, an Associated Press analysis has…
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Health law consumers face least choice in program’s history
WASHINGTON — Americans in the health insurance markets created by President Barack Obama’s law will have less choice next year than any time since the program started, a new county-level analysis for The Associated Press has found. The analysis by AP and consulting firm Avalere Health found that about one-third of U.S. counties will have…