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Cost of Care: Efemona’s Story
January 29, 2019
By: Efemona Kosi I am lucky to be covered under my parent’s healthcare plan. My mother is a nurse and my father is a correctional officer. We’re ensured under my
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Two Loose Screws: Anne’s Story
By: Anne Tews In 2010, I lost my job and got health care coverage through Thrivent. It cost an arm and a leg, and if I were to use it
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People’s House Series: Protect Health Care & The Provider Tax
There are deep, underlying questions we should be asking our elected leaders and each other. What kind of world do we want to live in? What does it mean to care for each other? What would it mean if we had health care that included everyone in Minnesota and left no one to fend for themselves? No one should have to crowdfund to get the care they need.
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Claiming Our Vision on Health Care—One Story at a Time
“I am a self-employed horse trainer and I moved back to Minnesota to start my business, in part specifically because of MinnesotaCare. It has provided fabulous coverage for me, and I could
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People’s House Series: First week of the legislative session
Dear Friends, Each week, the People’s House Series will share our progressive take on what’s happening at the people’s house (aka the Capitol). My name is Kenza Hadj-Moussa. I’m the
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Our Year in Sound: 2018
This is my last week at TakeAction Minnesota. I have loved writing to you. About our state. For TakeAction Minnesota. Working with Kenza and Elianne and the whole team here
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Growing Our Movements: Reflections from “Our Future is Joyful”
A fractal is a never-ending pattern—a complex structure that repeats and where each individual part is a replicate of the entire structure itself. Fractals exist in mathematics and in nature,
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Celebrating All the Good Trouble We Make Together
I’ve been thinking a lot about the quote Ana Maria Archila, activist and co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, shared on Saturday, words of activist Valarie Kaur: “What if America is not a
