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    Homeless resident impacted by shutdown gets a helping hand from anonymous NewsHour viewer

    Oct 14, 2013 06:35 PM EDT

    ... first month's rent. She was able to move in over the weekend. I caught up with Hall after she put in an eight-hour work shift late last night. She was in her new apartment. She told me she had a mix of emotions when she finally got the ...

  • How a Houston hospital reversed the trend of nurses leaving the profession

    How a Houston hospital reversed the trend of nurses leaving the profession

    Nov 13, 2023 11:20 PM EDT

    ... re not going to pay me that much money. No, I'm not going to tolerate those hours. No, I'm not going to only work night shift. They're saying, no, if you need me that bad, let's talk. That's what we need. William Brangham: In the ...

  • Dangerous heat wave baking U.S. Southwest brings triple digit temperatures, fire risk to California

    Dangerous heat wave baking U.S. Southwest brings triple digit temperatures, fire risk to California

    Jul 13, 2023 09:40 PM EDT

    ... not the time to be hiking or be outside for long durations,” the weather service's LA office said on Twitter. “If you need to work outside, shift hours to the early morning, take frequent breaks and hydrate!” Employers were reminded to adhere to regulations that require outdoor workers are ...

  • GOP announces plan to encourage early, mail-in voting despite previous messaging

    GOP announces plan to encourage early, mail-in voting despite previous messaging

    Jun 08, 2023 05:07 PM EDT

    ... for 2024, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the party “has never said ‘don’t vote early,'” but acknowledged the GOP will have to work to shift voters' perceptions. “That certainly is a challenge if you have people in your ecosystem saying, ‘Don’t vote early or don’t ...

  • What we know about the economic effects of limiting access to abortion

    What we know about the economic effects of limiting access to abortion

    Jul 17, 2022 09:35 PM EDT

    ... particularly low income women who are seeking abortions. And even if they find a way to subsidize or pay for childcare, many of these women work in what's called shift work. They have very unpredictable schedules, which make it really difficult to schedule, childcare. So I'm not denying ...

  • Jobs requiring college degrees disqualify most U.S. workers — especially workers of color

    Jobs requiring college degrees disqualify most U.S. workers — especially workers of color

    Oct 26, 2021 10:30 PM EDT

    ... train conductor, then shift work at a paper mill. John Hartman: One of the most dangerous industries that there is, chemicals, moving machinery, that anybody could get swept into and hurt. Paul Solman: Oscar Anaya also dropped out of community college and took high-risk work on an oil rig.

  • Poor people and people of color get less sleep — that’s bad for health and wealth

    Poor people and people of color get less sleep — that’s bad for health and wealth

    Jun 25, 2021 05:29 PM EDT

    ... improve sleep health, according to Jean-Louis and Troxel. Improved local noise ordinances, building codes for reducing light pollution, and more humane schedules for overnight shift work, which is more prevalent among African Americans, could all help reduce the sleep divide. Major national debate has focused on one relatively straightforward ...

  • A snapshot of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on working families

    A snapshot of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on working families

    Mar 31, 2020 09:14 PM EDT

    ... March 16, the day when nonessential businesses were ordered closed in the city, through March 24. On a typical day, 67 percent of these parents work a shift; over the last 10 days, that fell to 41 percent (see chart above). Moreover, as of March 25, 21 percent of our ...

  • How building a community of care can improve farmworkers' health

    How building a community of care can improve farmworkers' health

    Dec 06, 2019 11:30 PM EDT

    ... Arizona Area Health Education Center, or SEAHEC. Gail Emrick: Particularly precarious with farmworkers is the type of labor they're involved in, if it's shift work vs. ongoing or formal employment. And so some people might have health insurance and health coverage, and others may not. Anikka Abbott: The ...

  • Facebook moderators battle hate speech and violence

    Facebook moderators battle hate speech and violence

    May 04, 2019 07:05 PM EDT

    ... Sreenivasan: So what kind of things without getting too graphic, what kind of things are Facebook moderators looking at pretty much all day? It's shift work. Casey Newton: That's right. I mean some of the things that folks have described to me would include violence from drug cartels ...