How Health Industry Allies Will Lie About Elizabeth
Warren's Medicare for All Plan: The health insurance industry believed it was
marching Warren into a trap, and now they’re scrambling to come up with a
response to preserve their treasured but failing cash cow: the employer-based
health insurance system.
Hightower: Where Trump can find a good farm policy
Superrichinoids: The weirdest species of all
Letters to the Editor: Medicare for All is Not the
Solution
Froma Harrop: Democrats preside over stronger economies
NAFTA’s Empty Promises
We Need Publicly Owned Utilities: California’s wildfires
and blackouts show the dangers of entrusting our power to for-profit
corporations.
U.S. Competitiveness Report: Business Leaders
Pessimistic, Political Gridlock Biggest Obstacle to Strengthening America’s
Competitiveness. Business leaders partly
to blame for political dysfunction and critical to fixing it. 6th U.S.
competitiveness assessment polls business leaders and general public on steps
that could improve competitiveness, such as political reform and immigration
reform.
Want to give everyone health insurance and fight income
inequality? Sen. Warren has a plan for that
This proposal will essentially be a tax cut for most
working Americans
How Much ‘Inequality Tax’ Are You Paying? If the US were as equal as Japan, the average
American’s wealth would triple. Inequality is like a tax on two-thirds of your
income.
One Way to Honor Vets? Protect the Postal Service. USPS employs veterans at three times the
national rate, but the White House wants to slash these jobs — and employee
benefits.
A Democracy-Killing Duo: How the Supreme Court and the
Morbidly Rich are Ruining Democracy in America.
This is not democracy; it’s oligarchy or, at the very least, a corporate
state.
Latest Data Show Trump's Most Touted Economic Policies
Have Failed US Workers
NAFTA Is An Accomplice to Murder
Robert B. Reich: Only two Democratic candidates could fix
our broken system
The Medicare for All Debate Is Long Overdue: Medicare for
All is popular at first look. When the insurance and drug companies and other
opponents unleash their arguments, people’s doubts grow.
Japan-US Trade Agreement is Weak and Unconstitutional
A Note on the Limits of Uncle Sam
Annals of Inequality: the Trump Interlude
Homelessness increased 2.7 percent in 2019, HUD says
Trump boasts at rally, “Look what I’ve done for steel,”
as U.S. Steel announces layoffs
Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid
time off: Workers have paid vacation days in Turkmenistan, Brazil, and the
European Union — but not in the US.
Striking Teachers are Fighting for Much More Than
Paychecks: Calling for structural changes means taking on an economic and
political agenda and a hierarchy of policy leaders that choose to give public
funds and tax breaks to beneficiaries other than public schools.
How Trump’s poverty subsidy enriches the rich
The plutocrats’ most effective secret weapon is the U.S.
tax code
Vaping: When Kids Become Lab Experiments
Dispatches: MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICANS GETTING CRUSHED BY
HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS, etc.
Froma Harrop: Do U.S. carmakers want us to like them?
The Furor Over Medicare for All Ignores a Key Question
It’s Our Choice: Medicare for All, or Endless War? We could easily fund health care for all by
ending military boondoggles and fruitless wars. Here’s how.
What Breast Cancer Taught Me About Health Care: Your
ability to survive a health crisis shouldn’t depend on your employer, zip code,
or skin color.
Corporate Spies Keep An Eye On Organized Labor
A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is
What America Needs: The average benefit this year is just over $17,600,
certainly not enough to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.
Two Farm Crises
Cassandra on the Status Quo
Antibiotic Resistance: The Superbugs are Fighting Back
Americans Love CBD, But It’s a Wild West: Tens of
millions of Americans use CBD products. Most don’t realize it’s entirely unregulated.
Man with white beard robs bank, throws all the money in
the air and shouts ‘Merry Christmas’: The 65-year-old then waits to be arrested
outside nearby Starbucks after robbery
Europe on the wane: EU countries set to lose major ground
in ranking of biggest global economies.
My love letter to Britain: family ties can never really
be severed. Since I went to a British
school, you have always been part of me. Now you are leaving, and it breaks my
heart
PSPS, I Don’t Love You: When the power company shuts off
electricity in Northern California because its antiquated equipment might
otherwise spark a wildfire, it tries a community’s patience.
Two Clashing Visions for El Paso’s Future
Billionaires and Corporations Love anti-SLAPP Laws. Why
Does John Oliver?
They Made a Killing on the Mortgage Crisis. Now They Run
Trump’s America. The president has
empowered the ultimate Great Recession swamp creatures.
Universal Child Care: It means different things to
different candidates
Preschool for all is truly winnable
Baseball’s Hall of Fame Finally Admits Labor Pioneer
Marvin Miller: At least two owners and executives cast their secret ballot for
the Major League Baseball Players Association’s former head.
Less Rent, More Control
What’s scaring the bejeezus out of billionaires?
Which Food Future Will You Choose?
Threats to Farms and Food — Round Up the Usual Suspects
Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug? For me, it’s a gateway to pain relief. For
others, its prohibition is a gateway to mass incarceration.
Everything You Need To Know About The Next Recession:
Point 1: Democrats will have to stop agonizing over deficits and push the
federal government to help struggling Americans.
Corporations Sell Out Workers’ Safety for Profit — with
Trump as Their Ally
Workers are Benefitting from Low Unemployment and Higher
Minimum Wages
Ford Motor Company Has Lost its Way
Poverty Grew In One-Third Of U.S. Counties Despite Strong
National Economy: Most of the biggest increases were in areas both rural and
Southern.
A Shopper’s Guide to Costs, the Health Version
Why Bernie Sanders is Backing Cory Booker’s Plan to
Tackle Big Pharma’s Soaring Prices: On Nov. 15, Sen. Booker introduced a plan
to address the rising cost of prescription drugs
Annals of Inequality: the Market Factor
The Politics of the Non-Political Fed
A King’s Ransom
It’s Time to End Medicare-for-All Denial
Bashing the Poor and Protecting the Rich: What SNAP
‘Reform’ Means. Nearly a million
children could risk going hungry.
How Medicaid Expansion Is Transforming Politics As We
Know It: Even in deep-red states, voters vigorously defend the program—and they
know which party is attacking it.
The Trump tax cuts & corporations: A new report has
data on how the Trump tax cuts helped many profitable big companies pay less in
federal income taxes- and some pay none at all. Pulitzer Prize-winning tax
reporter David Cay Johnston and John Harwood discuss with Ayman Mohyeldin.
Here’s What the Labels on Your Meat Really Mean: Find out
how to shop smart for meat by knowing which terms are worth investing in and
which are just a marketing ploy.
The Cornucopia Institute provides needed information to
family farmers, consumers, and other stakeholders in the good food movement
through research and investigations on agriculture and food issues.
When Unions Save Lives: The threat of fines doesn’t
always make mines safer. But unions can.
9 Stats That Show the Tax Code Favors the Ultra-Rich:
Without dramatic tax reform, inequality will continue to skyrocket.
Want To Build the Labor Movement? Get a Job at a Union
Workplace. The case for the rank-and-file strategy.
90% of Workers Aren’t in a Union. Labor’s Future Depends
on Them. The labor movement needs more
organic leaders, not a militant minority.
Labor Needs To Embrace Social Justice Unionism: A
successful rank-and-file strategy must look beyond the workplace.
$44,000 for an Ambulance, Hour-Long Drives to an ER: The
Impossible Cost of Healthcare in Appalachia.
Rural hospitals are closing or downgrading at an alarming rate. That
could be fatal
Fed study finds Trump tariffs backfired
Southern Workers Unite Around Medicare for All: “A
Tremendous Liberation From Your Boss”: Workers from across the South converged
in Charlotte, N.C., on September 21 to kick off a Medicare for All campaign.
Reagan Lives On in Biden: For 40 years, Biden has pushed
to cut federal spending. In a recession, don’t expect him to prime the pump.
The Human Cost of the Law: LGBTQ+ Employment
Discrimination at the Supreme Court
'What Cruelty Looks Like': Trump Finalizes Plan to Strip
Food Aid From 750,000 Low-Income People by 2020. "When it came to tax cuts for
corporations and the wealthy, Trump felt the nation's finances were firm enough
to give up more than $1,500,000,000,000. When it's time to spend a fraction of
that to help poor people eat, that's when the well has supposedly run
dry."
Police Destroy Shelters for Homeless Vets in Freezing
Winnipeg Without Warning: City officials accused activists of building the
shelters on city property without asking.
Head Office
US lost more tax revenue than any other developed country
in 2018 due to Trump tax cuts, new report says
Lit 'n Legal: California's New Labor Laws Offer More
Protections for Women
Bashing the Poor and Protecting the Rich: What SNAP
‘Reform’ Means
Letters From the January 13/20, 2020, Issue: Is a deficit
really a strength?… Sharp quills (web only)…
Oh No, Jeremy Corbyn!
Boris Johnson wins a bigger majority than Margaret Thatcher as the
Labour Party goes down in a historic defeat. Britain is now Brexit bound.
Why Public College Should Be Free: Private institutions
should be forced to compete with free, high-quality public ones.
A Realist’s Guide to Progressive Giving: Your tax dollars
end up doing a lot of harm. Here’s a way to offset the damage.
Shockingly, Congress passed a law banning one of the
cable industry’s most despised practices
Democrats need to prepare Americans for a Trump-induced
financial meltdown
‘People have died as a result’: Rural Missouri residents
furious with greedy corporation for closing their only hospital
Whining billionaires are seemingly everywhere now — and
Trump is the most self-pitying of all
Fox News report spreads anti-vaxxer propaganda: ‘Measles
is not a big deal to me at all’
The Sinister Privilege of Burning Billions: WeWork's Adam
Neumann and the great game of asset immolation
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Middle Class:
Democrats say they want to rebuild it, but do they even know what it is?
Life Under the Algorithm: How a relentless speedup is
reshaping the working class
How Europe Stumped Britain’s Conservatives: New books on
Margaret Thatcher’s and David Cameron’s governments betray a fatal lack of
self-reflection.
Fukuyama’s Inner Civic Republicanism: Rethinking liberal
triumphalism—and its limitations (Part 2)
Smart Ass Cripple: Barriers to Access Must Fall . . .
Like Domino's: I'm boycotting Domino’s Pizza. The company has pulled out all
the stops to avoid having to make its lousy pizza available to people with
disabilities.
Fix It and They Will Come: How the renewal of a crumbling
New Jersey church became a model for reinvestment in community life.
Detroit’s Push for Community Benefits: Locals in one of
America’s poorest cities are pioneering efforts to hold major developers to
their promises.
Book Excerpt: How Unions Can Still Win Big. There are only two sides, the owners and the
rest of us.
Hemming and Hawing: Is Universal Basic Income a Good
Idea? We should really be asking: What
do we lose if Universal Basic Income is what we gain?
Edge of Sports: NFL Health Care’s Bitter Fruit. Why lineman Trent Williams turned against his
team not over the normal issues of money or managerial problems, but over
health care.
Trump's tariffs are driving job losses and production
cost hikes, the Fed says
China & Japan Selling US Debt (Guess whos buying?)
World Dumping US Debt & Hoarding Gold:
De-dollarization Explained
WHITHER CHIROPRACTIC?
Do Cosmetic Consumers Really Know What Ingredients They
Are Using? An Inquiry Into The Search For The ‘Truth’
Review: An Owner’s Manual For The Vagina
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