The deep and persistent racial wealth gap will not close without bold, structural reform
President Trump’s 2020 budget, released March 11, 2019, would make poverty more widespread, widen inequality and racial disparities, and increase the ranks of the uninsured.
Trump’s plan to end new HIV/AIDS diagnoses by 2030 misses a key element: prevention
Does the U.S. government’s priority for military spending explain, at least partially, the discrepancy between the worldwide preeminence of the U.S. armed forces and the feeble global standing of major American domestic institutions?
Some public sector unions fear that if single payer was enacted in New York insurance options for their members would be reduced and that the lure of joining unions could be curtailed if members no longer had the advantage of generous health plans.
Poor People's Campaign continues to organize. The message: "it will be the poor and dispossessed of this nation that will save us from self destruction.”
Next month, voters in Utah and Nebraska will decide measures to expand Medicaid and polling suggests they have a good chance of passing. But the Idaho ballot initiative may be the most audacious of them all.
Experts say Medicaid work requirements will create more problems than solutions, two Southern states — Arkansas and Kentucky — have already been granted federal approval to begin implementing them. These states', among the nation's poorest, work requirements could push thousands into coverage gaps.
Fight for What You Want. Not What You Think You Can Get.
Doctors in Quebec say negotiated pay rises are ‘shocking’ given ‘draconian cuts’ to other parts of province’s healthcare system
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