Wednesday, January 31, 2018

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One Republican's Disastrous Plan Would Make Student Debt an Even Bigger Problem: You won’t believe where he wants to get the money from.


 

How Tax Refunds Enable Healthcare Spending


 

Trump’s HHS Nom Endorses Bill That Would Lead To Dramatic Medicaid Cuts


 

The Children’s Health Insurance Program Is In Peril Again. But There’s Good News.  The real cost of funding health care for 9 million low-income kids has dropped — a lot.


 

Health Care Overhaul Appears Unlikely Before Midterm Elections: Republicans could face voters without strategy on rising premiums, other issues


 

Hospitals Brace Patients For Pain To Reduce Risk Of Opioid Addiction


 

ACA did little to boost hospital community benefit spending, study shows


 

DOJ Reverses its Marijuana Enforcement Policy


 

Man captures video of "patient dumping" outside Baltimore hospital


 

Corpses of Souls


 

In Psychopaths We Trust


 

With Tax Cuts in the Bag, the White House Ramps Up Its War on the Poor: Team Trump is now claiming that work cures disease.


 

How to get rich in America: Entering the upper-middle class is not impossible. Breaking into the 1% may as well be


 

Here’s How Trump’s New Policy Would End Medicaid As We Know It


 

A Billionaire’s Bid to Bring Amazon to Detroit


 

The Wind Chill is 46 Below and Our Roof Is Full of Holes


 

How Abusers Trap Victims By Draining Their Finances


 

Why We Need to Stop Calling Trump ‘Crazy’ When We Really Mean ‘Dangerous’


 

Dolly Parton: basic income trailblazer?


 

Senate bill to reverse net neutrality repeal gains 30th co-sponsor, ensuring floor vote


 

Pennsylvania's Casey exposes Trump's written plan to dismantle ACA


 

Congressional task force lays out a plan for fighting opioid addiction


 

Gov. Wolf to declare opioid epidemic a statewide emergency


 

Agriculture officials stress need to boost broadband access in rural Pennsylvania


 

Penn National Gaming lands license for Pennsylvania's next casino


 

Congress let CHIP’s funding expire 102 days ago, and it’s a national disgrace: It would cost $800 million to extend kids’ health insurance. That’s 0.1 percent of the price of the tax overhaul.


 

The price of extending CHIP is now so low it saves the government money: The CBO says a 10-year CHIP extension costs less than nothing.


 

Why CHIP is so essential for American kids, explained by one family’s story: “It was devastating and terrifying.”


 

The Trump administration’s plan for Medicaid work requirements, explained: The move marks a dramatic change to the 50-year-old program.


 

America’s Home Nurse Shortage is Stranding Kids in Hospitals: Hospitals are far more expensive than home nursing, but the U.S. has no comprehensive system to finance it. Parents can go bankrupt trying to take their kids home.


 

Parents agonize over their kids' health as funding for children's insurance program remains in doubt


 

How Trump’s HHS nominee’s drug company ‘gamed’ a patent: Alex Azar's record at Eli Lilly is likely to dominate his confirmation hearing Tuesday.


 

In states that didn’t expand Medicaid, hospital closures have spiked


 

Understanding the Intersection of Medicaid and Work


 

Deaths of Despair or Drug Problems?


 

Do Medicare Advantage Plans Minimize Costs? Investigating the Relationship Between Benchmarks, Costs, and Rebates


 

State Prescription Contraception Insurance Mandates: Effects on Unintended Births


 

MedPAC votes 14-2 to junk MIPS, providers angered


 

After Trump Tax Break Pfizer Ends Funding For Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Research And Gives Billions to Investors


 

Donald Trump's tax bill could cause a recession, warns Great Depression expert: Economic historian Robert McElvaine says Republican plans will be 'catastrophic' for the US economy


 

Commentary: The GOP’s Great Depression Tax Plan


 

A Great Depression Historian Just Issued A Chilling Warning About The Republican Tax Bill


 

GOP Tax Bill Horror and Trump Regime Fall: Prepare for a Depression


 

Senate Hits 50 Votes in Bid to Save Net Neutrality and/or Make Republicans Look Dumb


 

Trump To Gut Law Preventing Banks From "Redlining" and Refusing to Lend To Poor And Minorities.


 

The President Of The United Steelworkers Union Just Claimed That Trump BETRAYED Them To Appease China!


 

In rebuff to Sessions, federal Marijuana Justice Act filed in House: This is not just any marijuana legalization bill


 

Inequality is Feeding America: Vast disparities in the economy happen not by chance, but by intentional design


 

Jim Hightower: Coalitions of Agriculture Outsiders Tackle Powerful Agribusiness Insiders


 

Breakfast and Beer: The sweeping shift of the $10-billion cereal market to healthier alternatives is, in fact, an enormous, grassroots victory, driven by the organic movement.


 

LETTERS to the EDITOR: Tax Bill Kills Democracy


 

DISPATCHES: FEDS PREPARE FOR CRACKDOWN ON CANNABIS INDUSTRY


 

Lack of Bird Flu Research Should Make You Queasy


 

In Less Than A Year, Trump Has Stripped Back Workers’ Ability To Unionize: His revamped labor board issued a slew of new policies at the end of 2017 that will make collective bargaining harder.


 

Missouri Voters Look for Another Try at Living Wage


 

Dean Baker | Diverting Class Warfare Into Generational Warfare


 

Help For Struggling Millionaires Is On the Way: If you're struggling to get by on $20 million, the GOP is looking out for you and your heirs.


 

America's Health Care System Is an International Disgrace, and It's Only Getting Worse: Until we confront this reality, we can expect more preventable deaths and unnecessary suffering.


 

Death by a Thousand Cuts


 

Trump Undermines AIDS Programs


 

WILL DURST: Donald Trump as Robbing Hood


 

THE BEAUTY AND LUXURY OF THE FIRST BLACK-OWNED BEACH TOWN


 

The True Story Behind the Movie American Made


 

Apple CEO Tim Cook: I don't want my nephew on a social network


 

Hard Questions: Social Media and Democracy


 

Company Sheds 1000 Jobs After Tax Cuts 


 

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Held Onto Undisclosed Shares In Gun Company: It’s unclear exactly how much Zinke’s shares in PROOF Research Inc. are worth, but his relationship to the Montana company raises questions of access.


 

Sessions's Policy Now Makes Pot Use a Gamble: That's the opposite of what a law is supposed to do.


 

You’re the Real Job Creator: An interview with Stephanie Kelton


 

The national debt, explained: The U.S. debt is $20.5 trillion and rising. Should Americans be worried?


 

How Wealthy People Use the Government to Enrich Themselves


 

How the Rich Rig Regulations: A new book exposes the pernicious regulations that make the rich richer and the poor poorer—while shrinking the total economic pie.


 

Who Broke the Economy?  The authors of a new book argue that government regulations have been giving an unfair advantage to those already on top.


 

Millionaire Republican Senator: Healthcare And Food Are A Privilege, Not A Right


 

The Young Turks - Bernie Sanders Town Hall


 

Bank of America Celebrates Giant Tax Cut by Raising Fees on Poor People: The bank stands to save an extra $3 billion next year, but let’s not get carried away.


 

In business dealings, Donald Trump has ignored buy-American ethos


 

United States Net Worth Brackets, Percentiles, and Top One Percent in 2017


 

What Rich People Should Have Done Instead of Going to Davos, and What They Should Do When They Get Home: If you want to save the world, invest in your own communities. Pay your taxes. And support social movements.


 

The Tax Bill Bonus Sham: If Corporate America really wanted to help their employees, they'd drop their opposition to unions and let workers bargain for real gains rather than handouts.


 

A New Benchmark for Measuring Progress Against Inequality: The latest Oxfam look at our global rich and poor offers up a striking goal that deserves the world’s full attention at Davos — and beyond.


 

How to Make Lawmakers Rue the Day They Voted for This Scam of a Tax Bill: We can use this bill as a catalyst for the next wave of tax-fairness and economic-justice organizing.


 

Separate And Unequal: Chuck Collins On How Wealth Divides Us


 

Dark Money (book)


 

Trump Says He 'Saved Coal,' But Miner Deaths Nearly Doubled In His First Year


 

Big Pharma Will Lose $4 Billion Per Year Due to Medical Marijuana


 

State senator wants Arizona voters to block future minimum wage increases


 

Poverty-stricken Trump supporters are feeling ‘betrayed’ by tax plan for the rich: ‘It’s not fair’


 

Trump's $1 trillion plan inspires 'Hunger Games' angst: The president's long-awaited infrastructure package will expect cities and states to pick up much more of the costs for their projects.


 

To Have Not by Frances Lefkowitz


 

To Have Not: A Memoir


 

U.S. farmers have much to lose if NAFTA deal collapses


 

Harvard’s Endowment Is Profiting From Puerto Rico’s Debt as the Island’s Schools Face Crippling Cuts


 

Leading Marxist Scholar David Harvey on Trump, Wall Street, and Debt Peonage


 

Wall Street Isn’t the Answer to the Pension Crisis. Expanding Social Security Is.  The economic fate of workers shouldn't be tied to a stock market that rewards assaults on the working class.


 

Bernie Sanders Just Sidestepped Corporate Media to Promote Medicare for All to 1 Million Viewers: The democratic socialist senator’s town hall on universal healthcare marks a new phase in the political revolution.


 

Houston Is Being Rebuilt on a Foundation of Wage Theft: The exploitation after the storm.


 

In Davos, Trump Is Right at Home with the Global Financial Elite


 

Cattle Rancher to Cliven Bundy: You Steal from All of Us and Shouldn’t Be Welcomed in Montana


 

In Kensington, frustration and relief over the prospect of a safe injection site


 

It’d be great if Trump were right about the economy, but he’s not


 

Putting ‘Housing is Health Care’ into Action to Help End Chronic Homelessness


 

Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama?

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