New Yorkers Care About Care. The State Budget Should, Too.
Workers, clients, and advocates rallied in Albany to secure living wages for their state’s hardworking and underpaid home care workers. Will the governor listen?
How Low-Income Voters Shaped the Midterm Elections
Americans across the spectrum voted to raise wages, expand health care, and protect abortion rights. These issues have a common thread.
Nurses are Standing Up to Profiteers and Demanding Universal Healthcare
The first-ever Senate hearing on Medicare for All examined how our profit-driven healthcare system endangers patients and betrays nurses.
Overturning Roe Will Lead to a Human Rights Crisis for All Americans
Generations have fought for the constitutional rights to privacy and bodily autonomy. We must protect them.
From the Kingpins of Private Equity, A New Dagger to Democracy
Profit maximizing in the newspaper industry is corroding the knowledge base that sustains government by the people.
We Shouldn’t Have to Rely on the National Guard for Basic Services
Guard members have stepped up heroically during the pandemic. If we invested in more than just the military, maybe they wouldn’t have to.
My Disabled Life Is Worthy
The loss of disabled and chronically ill lives due to COVID-19 is no less tragic or preventable.
Don’t Cut Care
Aging and disabled Americans — and the workers who care for them — have a huge stake in federal budget negotiations.
As Rich Nations Protect Corporate Patents, the Global Vaccine Divide is Widening
People in high-income countries represent 16 percent of the world’s population, but have received 56 percent of COVID-19 vaccine doses.
COVID Relief: The Biggest Health Care Expansion in a Decade
The American Rescue Plan will help over 1 million uninsured Americans get covered — and cut premiums by half for millions more.
Frist Family Leads Pandemic Profiteer Parade in Health Sector
For-profit hospital billionaire owners see their wealth increase by $8.1 billion since March 2020.
The ‘Pre-Existing Condition’ That Doomed the U.S. COVID Response?
The answer from a blue-ribbon medical commission on the Trump years: decades of rising inequality.
Don’t Trash the Affordable Care Act—Expand It
Not even a raging pandemic stopped Republicans from dragging yet another effort to throw millions off their health care to the Supreme Court.
This Is an Emergency: Americans Need Relief, and Trump Is Standing in the Way
The president just benefited from lifesaving, taxpayer-funded measures. He has no business blocking Americans from getting the same.
Trump Gets Socialized Health Care. What About the Rest of Us?
The president has free access to the best medical care in the world. There’s no reason why the rest of America shouldn’t get what their taxes pay for.