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As the steel industry collapses, grassroots efforts lead to a national healthcare program.
In the early 1980s, the steel industry collapsed, leaving families without any healthcare coverage for their children. As displaced steelworkers banded with church leaders in the hardest hit sections of Pittsburgh, a grassroots program expanded into one of the most important federal children's healthcare programs ever enacted – the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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In the early 1980s, the steel industry collapsed, leaving families without any healthcare coverage for their children. As displaced steelworkers banded with church leaders in the hardest hit sections of Pittsburgh, a grassroots program expanded into one of the most important federal children's healthcare programs ever enacted – the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ - When steel went down, it took 150,000 jobs.
- Some of the highest unemployment in the nation.
- And all the traumas that came with it.
(protestors yelling) - We want jobs!
- When our kids get hurt or get sick, we have no health insurance.
You don't just hear that and ignore it.
- All sectors of the community joined together to help these kids.
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