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mattie-quinn

Mattie Quinn

Staff Writer

Mattie covers all things health for Governing. A native of Arkansas, she graduated with her M.S. from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism with a focus on public health reporting. Her work has been published in National Geographic, New York Magazine and The Atlantic.

LGBT Foster Families
Archive
Religious Liberty Amendment Alarms Foster Care Advocates
Before it goes on vacation, the U.S. Senate could significantly cut child welfare funding in states with anti-discrimination policies protecting LGBT people who want to adopt or foster.
July 31, 2018
 · Mattie Quinn
Overdose Antidote Divided Police
Archive
With Opioids, Police Move Beyond Arrest-First Approach
Instead, they’re connecting drug abusers to substance treatment and other resources.
July 27, 2018
 · Mattie Quinn
Supreme Court Kavanaugh
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Not Just Massachusetts: 10 Other States Have Abortion Bans Still on the Books
With the future of Roe v. Wade uncertain, the state is on the verge of repealing its 173-year-old law that criminalizes abortion. Similar efforts are underway in some other states.
July 26, 2018
 · Mattie Quinn
Homeless Crisis On The Coast
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'It's the New Form of Affordable Housing': More People Are Living in Their Cars
With rents on the rise, cities are grappling with a growing population of "vehicular homelessness" -- a way of life considered illegal in many places.
July 23, 2018
 · Mattie Quinn
Doctor and patient
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As Federal Medicaid Money Fades, How Are States Funding Expansion?
Many are tapping into tax revenues, making hospitals help, or adding work requirements and premiums to account for their increasing share of the expansion bill. In some, the debate is so heated that it's ended up in court.
July 19, 2018
 · Mattie Quinn
Home health care worker helps her client out of their wheelchair
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Unions Could No Longer Get Medicaid Money Under New Trump Proposal
The federal government wants to roll back an Obama-era rule that lets some Medicaid payments go toward unions that represent home health care workers -- one of the fastest-growing and lowest-paid jobs.
July 11, 2018
 · Mattie Quinn
food-truck
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A New Use for Food Trucks: Feeding Hungry Students in the Summer
Instead of making low-income kids travel for meals when school is out, Minneapolis is bringing the food to them.
July 10, 2018
 · Mattie Quinn
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson
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After Medicaid Ruling, Most States Hit Pause But Some Proceed
Work requirements failed their first court test, in Kentucky. The case leaves the legality of other states' policies uncertain, but some of them are moving forward with business as usual anyway.
July 05, 2018
 · Mattie Quinn
Abortion Mississippi
Archive
The State Abortion Laws That Could Challenge Roe v. Wade
The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy increases the likelihood of extreme restrictions passing legal scrutiny.
June 27, 2018
 · Mattie Quinn
Tampons and pads.
Archive
Hygiene Equity Goes Beyond Tampon Taxes
States are making products for women and children -- particularly those in prison or poverty -- more affordable.
June 26, 2018
 · Mattie Quinn
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