News you might be missing – Friday Edition

pexels-photo-50634.jpegIn this edition of NYMBM, the hidden costs  – to patients and insurers — of those diabetes classes doctors like to prescribe, fact-checking the president’s call to Fox and Friends, and how once-homeless single moms are beating the odds because of a creative social program in Kentucky.

What does it cost you to go to a diabetes class? Could be plenty/ KHN.org

https://khn.org/news/hospitals-lure-diabetes-patients-with-self-care-courses-but-costs-can-weigh-heavily/


Was Trump right in what he said on Fox and Friends?/ Factcheck.org

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/trump-wrong-on-comey-leak-mccabe-funds/


Innovative thinking offers single moms a path out of poverty and homelessness/The Hechinger Report

http://hechingerreport.org/these-formerly-homeless-single-moms-beat-the-odds-and-are-now-college-grads/


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Author: nickpattersonfreelance

I'm a professional reporter, writer, editor, teacher, storyteller. A former travel and features editor for Southern Living, I started Velleity because people keep offering me travel stuff and you may as well benefit from it.

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