Sarah Volpenhein
America Corps Member Reporter at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Reporter covering hospitals and health care for @journalsentinel. Former @Report4America, @TheMarionStar, @GFHerald, @Enquirer. Hablo español. Data nerd.
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
jsonline.com | Sarah Volpenhein
Four of UW-Madison's research grants were canceled, part of a purge by the Trump administration of funding related to transgender issues, COVID and DEI Wisconsin and 15 other states have sued the Trump administration challenging the cancelations and delays in issuing new grants In notices ending the grants, the National Institutes of Health said they no longer met agency priorities UW researchers criticized the "assault" threatening to set research back decades and restrict scientists'...
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2 weeks ago |
jsonline.com | Sarah Volpenhein |Natalie Eilbert
In a reversal from statements a day prior, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services now says it will release COVID relief funds that President Donald Trump's administration sought to cancel, in the wake of a federal judge's order temporarily restoring the funds.
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2 weeks ago |
jsonline.com | Sarah Volpenhein |Natalie Eilbert
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is holding off on reinstating more than $200 million in COVID-19 relief funds that had been canceled by the Trump administration and are the subject of a back-and-forth legal dispute, Secretary-designee Kirsten Johnson said Tuesday.
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3 weeks ago |
jsonline.com | Sarah Volpenhein
The Milwaukee Health Department has lost the help of federal employees who were helping with lead contamination investigations at Milwaukee Public Schools. That happened after U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced mass layoffs. The layoffs come in the midst of federal funding cuts to state and local health departments.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Sarah Volpenhein
Wisconsin is one of nearly two dozen states suing President Donald Trump's administration over last week's cancellation of COVID-era grants that amount to more than $225 million in funding Wisconsin had expected to yet receive.
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