After looking at the unmet need scores (UNS) in the Alleghenies, I thought that I should backtrack and look at unmet needs in Pennsylvania. There are 1,945 zip codes in the state. As you can see in the image above, some of these cross state lines. One hundred and forty nine zip codes have a […]

Last Saturday I went to the Rage Against the Regime protest in downtown Johnstown. I interviewed some of the participants in the video above. Groups like Indivisible organized the rally. Previously I posted on the unmet need score (UNS) for 708 zip codes in the Alleghenies. These zip codes are seen in the map below. […]

I have looked at County Health Rankings variables in Pennsylvania correlating them with Trump’s vote at the county level. This time I am looking at the Health Resources and Services Administration Unmet Need Score online tool. You can see where your zip code stands at this tool. This tool provides health data at the zip […]

As a follow-up to my post on pharmacy deserts in Pennsylvania, Lyrical Capo has written a post on the local pharmacy desert in Johnstown. “When the pharmacy closes, the community suffers.” Emphatically, this harsh reality has hit home in Johnstown, PA, where Rite Aid has abandoned numerous locations, leaving residents struggling to access essential healthcare […]

On this page we have written about news deserts, food deserts, and legal deserts. Now we can add pharmacy desert to this list. At the end of June, Rite Aid has closed all of its stores in the Johnstown area. The Center for Rural Pennsylvania has published a fact sheet on Pharmacy deserts in Rural […]

In my last post I reported on how median income and the % having at least some college in a county predicted support for Donald Trump in that county in Pennsylvania. These were univariate correlations with Trump’s vote. One sociologist I know commented that median income would not be significant if I controlled for more […]

Lyrical Capo has written another post. This time it’s on the Defend Medicaid rally held by the group Locals for Good. She details how Medicaid cuts are a threat to Johnstown’s most vulnerable. Below is the video she took at the rally. Above is the video I took of all of the speakers. Imagine losing […]

On April 21, a forum was held at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown campus, on the impact of Medicaid cuts in the Alleghenies. The event was sponsored by the group Locals for Good. The Trump administration proposes slashing $880 billion in spending cuts to pay for his 2017 tax cuts because these tax cuts are […]

The 2025 County Health Rankings are out. Their current health model is in the video above. This may be the last time that the rankings are released. This is due to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s decision to discontinue funding. For this post, I will focus on pandemic life expectancies for race in the Alleghenies. […]

With all of the horror at the cuts being made by the DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), there are planned economic boycotts which can be seen in the image below. The cuts to Medicaid will do serious harm to many at the lower end of the economic scale. The Democrats are currently focused on maintaining […]