5,000 nurses, doctors, midwives, and nurse practitioners walked off the job January 10 in an open-ended strike at Providence Health and Services, the dominant hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest.
Dean Baker
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Economists have seriously failed the public in important areas over the last three decades. And these failures played a role in fostering the upward redistribution of income over the last four decades. People have a right to be angry.
As 8,000 employees lost their jobs last month in a cost-cutting reorganization, the Cargill-MacMillan family for the first time since 2019 received profit-sharing payments.
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