French government launches budget talks over growing deficit

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France’s new ministers for finance and public accounts are meeting with top MPs to kick off talks aimed at getting a 2025 budget passed, this as concern grows over the country’s ballooning deficit and debt. Also, New York City rolls out America’s first-ever congestion pricing programme, aimed at funding repairs to the metropolis’ dilapidated subway … Read more

Listen: NPR and KFF Health News Explore How Racism and Violence Hurt Health

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KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony and Emily Kwong, host of NPR’s podcast “Shortwave,” talk about Black families living in the aftermath of lynchings and police killings in their communities. Anthony shares her southeastern Missouri-based reporting from “Silence in Sikeston,” a documentary film, podcast, and print reporting project. She discusses the latest research on … Read more

Aviva pledges more than £4m to Citizens Advice

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Aviva has renewed its multi-year partnership with Citizens Advice, pledging more than £4m to the charity, following its two-year investment in 2022. Over the next three years Aviva’s funding will support the charity to develop a dedicated customer referral service for Aviva’s UK customers in need of additional advice, which will be provided on a … Read more