February, 2015 | The Pump Handle

Food Safety & Nutrition Researchers map a policy route toward huge reductions in U.S. childhood poverty

February 3, 2015 Kim Krisberg

If national lawmakers took action on less than a dozen policy fronts, they could reduce child poverty in the U.S. by a whopping 60 percent. In sheer numbers, such a reduction would lift 6.6 million children out of poverty and significantly improve their opportunities for living long and fruitful lives.

California What’s at stake in TSCA reform

February 2, 2015 Elizabeth Grossman

Introduction of a new TSCA reform bill is expected some time this spring. In the meantime, The Pump Handle takes a look at what’s at stake in TSCA reform and why the outcome matters to those who care about protecting and improving occupational and public health.

Agriculture Why is a reporter doing the work of a clinician? Pesticide drift in Washington State

February 2, 2015 The Pump Handle

Pesticide drift from a pear orchard sickened 20 farmworkers laboring in a neighboring cherry orchard. Many sought care, but the state’s health department wasn’t notified by the workers’ clinicians. It was a newspaper reporter who called authorities. Where were the clinician reports and why are they so important?

Liz Borkowski, MPH	Celeste Monforton, DrPH,
Kim Krisberg	Garrett Brown