If commitment to the public good is the measure of a person, then Max Fine’s life was one well-lived. Max William Fine, the last surviving member of JFK’s Medicare Task Force, spent the better part of a century in pursuit of health care for all.
Ratification is currently underway, and when ratified, this agreement stands to set a liberating precedent for nurses across the country (except CA where staffing limits are law) who are eager for safer working conditions for themselves and patients.
The time has come to take health care off the bargaining table by making it a right for all Americans.
Measure, formally introduced Feb. 27, signals party’s growing backing for once-fringe idea
What We Know So Far About the Medicare for All Act of 2019
UHW was an incubator of talent, organizers who are still bargaining for the common good, utilizing the power of the strike, and promoting a political agenda for labor that’s focused on issues, rather than personalities.
AOC’s advocacy of a tax rate of 70-80 percent on very high incomes, is obviously crazy, right? Who thinks that makes sense? Only ignorant people like - Peter Diamond, Nobel laureate in economics, arguably the world’s leading expert on public finance
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Cuban engagement in Africa left profound impacts, both on the host countries and on the Cubans who went.
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