Tag: hard
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Asheville, N.C.’s arts scene has powered its economy. Rebuilding will be hard.
Trumpower works in Southside Studios, a collective workspace run by a fellow artist on the bank of the Swannanoa River in South Asheville. Trumpower, who spent the run-up to the storm packing up pottery and other local artists’ pieces, said no one at the time expected the flooding to be as severe as it was.…
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New prescription drug price hikes hit Black patients hard
Prices for prescription pharmaceutical drugs have skyrocketed, disproportionately making them harder for people of color to afford, a new report finds. The advocacy organization Patients for Affordable Drugs released a report this month showing that pharmaceutical companies increased prices on at least 1,000 prescription drugs so far this year, with about half of the price…