After five years, Candy Gutierrez has grown used to the stress of being a single mom. There have been times when she’s worried she won’t make rent, or had to ask for help paying the ...
El Paso Planned Parenthood, through its umbrella organization Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, has joined dozens of abortion rights advocates and providers in a federal lawsuit seeking to block the state’s strict new abortion law ...
As El Paso child care providers struggle to restore services in a reopening economy, they’ve faced an unexpected source of competition for workers — the Fort Bliss emergency shelter for migrant children. Local non-profit providers ...
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