Today, StoryCorps, the oral history project that has collected more than 40,000 interviews and is heard weekly on NPR’s Morning Edition, will bring its MobileBooth to Millennium Park.
The Affordable Health Care Act will extend health care coverage to an additional 30 million Americans. Family doctors will play an essential role in keeping costs down. That is, if there are enough of them out there.
Wednesday on Eight Forty-Eight Alexandra Saloman guest hosts and she talks to WBEZ's Chip Mitchell, who explains why some immigrants are worried that signing up for valid work papers may put themselves and their families in even greater danger of being deported. We also have a conversation about women in the workplace and about the shortage of doctors that has resulted from the Affordable Care Act with Bruce Japsen, a healthcare reporter who writes for Forbes.
When Richard Steele thinks about the Bridgeport he knew as a child of the 1950s, he remembers the warnings his parents gave him. WBEZ asks the question: Can a neighborhood change?