In the past five years, more than half of U.S. adults report they've gone into debt because of medical or dental bills. "Debt is no longer just a bug in our system. It is one of the main products. We have a health care system almost perfectly designed to create debt."
Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee of 70 years on the throne. Even before cost of living crisis, the poor owed the government – or, the Crown – £16bn. Why not just write it off?
Financial vultures are pushing a new round of bankruptcy and austerity in Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans themselves, meanwhile, continue to fight for pensions, basic services, and a democratic say in their lives that has been denied them so long.
This new history of Detroit seeks to guide readers through a century of the city's class struggles and the population's responses to deindustrialization, bankruptcy, and post-bankruptcy neoliberal-sponsored revival.
Under the current system, “the lungs of the Earth are being plowed up and bulldozed to plant more corn and soybeans so that more animals can be raised in confinement.” "Farmers need to follow the lead of India’s farmers and make our voices heard.”
A provision nestled in the year-end federal government's spending deal guaranteed pension and health care benefits to more than 100,000 coal miners and their families.
High-interest loan companies are using Utah’s small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail money. Technically, the warrants are issued for missing court hearings. For many, that’s a distinction without a difference.
"We need to move ahead from the ACA to a single-payer, Medicare for All system that assures first-dollar coverage for everyone."
The private equity business model is to strip assets from companies that they acquire. The latest victims: retail grocery chains
Lesson No. 1: Don’t trust bank stress-test results.
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