Jessica Miller

Associate Producer, WNYC News

Jessica Miller appears in the following:

Local Perspectives on the Affordable Care Act

Monday, May 13, 2013

According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey, roughly half of American adults do not feel they have enough information to understand how the Affordable Care Act will affect t...

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American Sentenced in North Korea

Friday, May 10, 2013

Last week, 44 year old Kenneth Bae became the sixth American detained in North Korea since 2009. His sentence is the most severe punishment to date. He faces 15 years of hard labor ...

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Is America Too Familiar with Guns?

Thursday, May 02, 2013

As a sophomore in high school, Bruce Holbert used to sleep in the room where his father stored several rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. This proximity to guns led to a fam...

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The Medical Ethics of Force-Feeding Guantanamo Hunger Strikers

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

This week a large team of “medical reinforcements” including Navy nurses, corpsmen, and specialists, were deployed to Guantanamo Bay as a response to the ongoing inmate hunger strike....

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How to Fight the Wealth Gap

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Anne Price, Program Director for Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative evaluates a proposal made yesterday on our program by Darrick Hamilton for baby bonds as a policy interventio...

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What West, Texas Teaches Us About Chemicals

Monday, April 29, 2013

The explosion at the fertilizer plant in West, Texas killed at least 14 and left some 200 people injured. But those casualties are not just of plant employees and first responders, th...

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White House Believes Chemical Weapon Use Likely in Syria

Friday, April 26, 2013

With “varying degrees of confidence,” the White House announced Thursday that President Bashar al-Assad has employed the use of chemical weapons in Syria. P.J Crowley is the former ...

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Is My Generation Screwed?: A Father and Daughter Talk Finance

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Their parents might have been I investing in 401(k)s and becoming home owners when they were in their 20s, but for many 20-somethings today, those conventions don't seem possible. But...

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Senior American Officials Call For Policy Change on Iran

Monday, April 22, 2013

Since 1979, the US has issued sanctions on trade with Iran. The goal of these sanctions is to support diplomatic efforts to peacefully resolve the disagreements with Iran without havi...

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When An Ordinary ER Becomes a Trauma Hospital

Friday, April 19, 2013

After the bombs went off in Boston, local emergency rooms were inundated with trauma patients. In addition, those patients arrived with complex wounds typical of war zones, like those...

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Could Texas Go Blue?

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Now that Texan demographics are changing, many are starting to wonder if the Lone Star State is headed back to blue. For the first time, big Democratic donors are starting to pour mon...

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A Sneak Peak of the George W. Bush Library

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

George W. Bush is back in the press with his Presidential Center scheduled to open on May 1st. According to Dallas Morning News Staff Writer Tom Benning, this new presence in the medi...

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A Former Undocumented Immigrant Shares Her Story

Monday, April 15, 2013

Sayu Bhojwani was born in India, raised in Belize and was in the United States when her visa expired – making her an undocumented immigrant. She went on to not only become an American...

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