The Broken Backbone of America’s Healthcare System Community health workers fill the gaps in places without enough doctors and nurses. Trump’s budget cuts are costing them their jobs, putting untold clients at risk. 9 June 2026 at 8:00 pm AEST Gift this article Listen 00:00 36:22 The crops begin even before the Fresno city limits end: rows of neatly pruned trees and bushes and vines incubating almonds, pistachios, cotton, tomatoes, plums, peaches, nectarines, oranges, lemons, grapefruits, mandarins and grapes—for eating, for drinking, for drying into raisins. This bounty is trucked hundreds or thousands of miles across California and the country, away from Fresno. The irony of life in the San Joaquin Valley is that locals rarely benefit from their region’s abundance. Almost 1 in 5 residents don’t reliably have enough to eat. Among them is 76-year-old Señora Flores, who on this March morning is dressed in an elaborately appliquéd turquoise cardigan and matching tank top, her long ...
