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Author Archives: Bram Sable-Smith

Bram Sable-Smith joined the Center in 2019 as the Wisconsin Public Radio Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative Reporting Fellow. Before moving to Wisconsin he spent five years reporting on health care at KBIA in Columbia, Missouri and as a founding reporter of Side Effects Public Media, a public media reporting collaborative in the Midwest. He also taught radio journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Bram’s contributed stories to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, American Public Media’s Marketplace and Kaiser Health News. His reporting has received two national Edward R. Murrow awards, two national Sigma Delta Chi awards, a health policy award from the Association of Health Care Journalists among others. Bram is a proficient Spanish speaker and a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.

Posted inGovernment, Lives on Hold, Outbreak Wisconsin

Wisconsinites with disabilities see long wait for jobless aid, even after gaining eligibility

by Bram Sable-Smith August 18th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inGovernment, Health & Welfare, Lives on Hold, Outbreak Wisconsin

Following denials, laid-off Wisconsin workers with disabilities now eligible for federal pandemic aid

by Bram Sable-Smith July 28th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Health & Welfare, Outbreak Wisconsin

‘Conflict of emotions’: ER nurse reflects on death, mourning and rites of passage in the COVID era

by Bram Sable-Smith July 21st, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Health & Welfare

Calls for more coronavirus testing as Wisconsin sees ‘significant community spread’

by Bram Sable-Smith July 17th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Government, Lives on Hold

As the nation reckons with race, a mother awaits unemployment aid — and Wisconsin officials lack research

by Bram Sable-Smith June 30th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Government, Lives on Hold, Outbreak Wisconsin

Lives on hold: Pandemic exposes failures of Wisconsin unemployment insurance system

by Bram Sable-Smith June 29th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Government, Lives on Hold, Outbreak Wisconsin

Reversing course: Wisconsin seeks federal OK to aid the unemployed with disabilities

by Bram Sable-Smith June 16th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Government, Outbreak Wisconsin

Introducing Jessica Barrera: A single mom reflects on returning to work during the pandemic

by Bram Sable-Smith June 16th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Economy, Government, Lives on Hold, Outbreak Wisconsin

‘I cried for days’: Wisconsin blocks pandemic payments for federal disability aid recipients

by Bram Sable-Smith June 1st, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Health & Welfare

Coronavirus exposes caregiver shortage, upending lives of Wisconsin’s disabled residents

by Bram Sable-Smith May 20th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Outbreak Wisconsin

‘This pandemic has yet to declare itself’: ER nurse reflects on the fight against coronavirus as the state prepares to open

by Bram Sable-Smith May 14th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Health & Welfare

‘Almost a death sentence’: How Wisconsin doctors, peers are rethinking ventilators for coronavirus

by Bram Sable-Smith May 4th, 2020February 24th, 2021

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