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‘Those People’

Elizabeth DiNovella Fernández The Progressive
The American safety net didn’t catch me when I fell. The people I was warned about as a child did.

El-Sayed’s Win in Michigan Is the Most Consequential Election This Year

Dr. James J. Zogby Arab American Institute
In what will be seen as this year’s most significant election Dr Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and massive US military support to Israel became central themes actively debated across the state

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Your Next Nurse May Monitor You From the Philippines

Michael Sainato and Jonathan Feakins rest of world
drawing of the back of a person holding an ipad with an image of a doctor. d a  a U.S. hospitals are increasingly hiring Filipino nurses for remote roles to fill staffing gaps and for cost savings, but the practice may be aggravating shortages in the Philippines.

Mexico Is Going All In for Universal Health Care

Kurt Hackbarth Jacobin
Mexico’s new national health system aims to provide universal care. At a moment when US taxpayer dollars are being harnessed to destroy health care infrastructure abroad, Mexico is attempting to make a constitutional right to care into a reality

Article Why American Life Expectancy Is Falling

Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking
In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, and economics in America are killing us sooner, and what we can do to change it.
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