Doulas Teaching Doulas

In New York City and across the country, publicly-funded education programs for doulas of color are booming. A movement to advocate for Medicaid to cover doula services for low-income, pregnant people, has succeeded in several states, which helps make a doula career more accessible to people of color.

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Education, Featurepalabra.
Sembrando éxito

Los estudiantes migrantes y sus familias siguen los ciclos de las estaciones por el país durante todo el año para sembrar y cosechar los productos agrícolas de Estados Unidos. Los hijos de estas familias se enorgullecen de la ética de trabajo de sus padres, pero les cuesta continuar con su educación. Desde hace 50 años, la beca CAMP les ha permitido a cientos de ellos ir a la universidad.

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Españolpalabra.
Sowing Success

Migrant students and their families follow the seasons year-round to sow and harvest America’s produce. Students take pride in their families’ work ethic — but struggle to continue their schooling. The 50-year-old CAMP scholarship helps hundreds of them go to college.

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Educationpalabra.
In Limbo

Many asylum seekers in the United States journeyed through danger in Latin America. Then, thousands were bussed from the border to await far-off immigration court dates in far-off places like New York. Now many are stuck, forced to beg churches for help or take low-paid clandestine jobs to support families and pay off smugglers.

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Feature, Immigrationpalabra.
Ahogados en pagos

Mientras continúa la batalla legal sobre un plan de perdón de préstamos estudiantiles federales, muchas familias latinas enfrentan situaciones difíciles cuando se trata de crecientes deudas universitarias.

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Feature, Españolpalabra.
Forget Me Not

The Rio Grande Valley is at the epicenter of an Alzheimer’s spike among Latinos. Yet Texas, with a $33 billion budget surplus, spends far less on this devastating form of dementia than other large states.

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Feature, Culturepalabra.
Birthing Health

Access to maternal health in the U.S. presents challenges for immigrant women, with or without papers, but advocates are pushing for policies to remedy that.

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Sharedpalabra.
Educación 2023

En una entrevista de amplio espectro con palabra, el Secretario de Educación Miguel Cardona compartió su visión para el futuro de la educación, y ofreció su perspectiva sobre el alivio de deuda estudiantil y la seguridad escolar.

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Feature, Españolpalabra.
Educación 2023

In a wide-ranging interview with palabra,  Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona laid out his vision for the future of education, and his take on student debt relief and school safety.

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Feature, Educationpalabra.