Boston, Mass.    On May 11, the Biden Administration officially let the Federal Public Health Emergency expire. First declared at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the PHE expanded access to Medicaid, food stamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and housing programs. An

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"The end of Public Health Emergency (PHE) has stripped tens of millions of working families of these basic protections against COVID-19, which continues to infect, disable and kill thousands of people every week, disproportionately affecting Indigenous, Black and Latiné communities, including elderly and disabled people. "