Social Issues

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Illustration on failures in the Veterans Administration system of care by M. Ryder/ Tribune Content Agency

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Women activists representing the National Women's Law Center (left) and Planned Parenthood stand outside the Senate chamber after Senate Democrats' effort to proceed on the “Protect Women’s Health From Corporate Interference Act,” was thwarted, on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 16, 2014. Democrats sponsored the election-year bill to reverse last month's Supreme Court ruling that closely held businesses with religious objections could deny coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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A black woman named Yaya M. has launched a crowdfunding campaign online that asks donators to help offset her "lack of white privilege." (GoFundMe.com)

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FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2013 file photo Chongtou Yang, 59, of Cottage Grove, Wis., gets guidance on the health insurance exchanges from counselor Lorraine McGowan at the Dane County Job Center in Madison, Wis. Figures released Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's administration show that more than 60 percent of the people who lost state Medicaid coverage earlier this year did not purchase private insurance through the online marketplace. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart, File)

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News 12 reporter Sean Bergin was reportedly suspended Monday after he blamed anti-cop sentiments among inner-city residents on "young black men growing up without fathers." (Twitter/Sean Bergin)

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Staff and prisoners credit an emphasis on faith, family and redemption — even for lifers and inmates on death row — that Warden Burl Cain brought to Angola. The inmates were reuniting with their families. Volunteers with the Awana Lifeline ministry wore gray and lime-green T-shirts, and the inmates wore red, blue, yellow and dark green shirts.

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has said that Republican employment policies have helped people in his state, among others. However, the statistics he cited fail to take into account those people who have given up trying to find work entirely, thereby reducing the overall tallies of the unemployed. (Associated Press)

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has said that Republican employment policies have helped people in his state, among others. However, the statistics he cited fail to take into account those people who have given up trying to find work entirely, thereby reducing the overall tallies of the unemployed. (associated press)