Texas Standard for December 21, 2016
Texas officials fulfill a promise – no more Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood. The implications and what comes next. And: A multi-million dollar emergency infusion for child protective services. The plan – hire new caseworkers and give raises to keep others from leaving. But there’s a hitch, just in time for the holidays. We’ll hear about it. Also: She was a full-throated communist, cast as a working-class hero and a villain. And then her story was almost lost to history. A revival of interest in the lady called ‘the passionate one from Texas’. Plus: Veterans signing on to wage a new kind of war … in cyberspace. All of that and lots more today on the Texas Standard:
Miguel Gutierrez Jr./KUT
More from 12/21/2016
Planned Parenthood Will No Longer Get Medicaid Funding, Texas Health Officials Say
Not All CPS Workers Will Get the Pay Raise They Were Promised
How This Woman Organized a Strike for Workers’ Rights in the 1930s
New Central Texas Program Aims to Reduce Prostitution
Why a Famous All-Women Prison String Band Faded into Obscurity
Taking Advantage Of Veteran Security Clearances To Land Jobs
Dallas Schools Keep Kids In Class By Keeping Them Clean With New Washers And Dryers
Is California’s Economy Growing Faster Than Texas’?
