|
Americans stick with health insurance despite Trump's push to dismantle Obamacare
|
22.5.2018 |
LA Times: Business |
| Americans kept up their health insurance last year despite President Trump's all-out push to dismantle the Obama-era coverage expansion. That's the counterintuitive conclusion from a major government survey released Tuesday. After nearly a full year of Trump’s presidency, the uninsured rate was...  |
|
Also found in: [+]
[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
[flenvcenter :: Health System]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
|
|
Why has the personal savings rate declined so dramatically?
|
22.5.2018 |
Washington Post: Op-Eds |
| Why has the personal savings rate declined so dramatically? |
|
Also found in: [+]
[demo :: Housing]
[newstrust :: Housing]
[newstrust :: Credit Cards]
|
|
Why these 2 California Republicans just keep winning
|
22.5.2018 |
LA Times: Commentary |
For years, Reps. Jeff Denham and David Valadao have been targeted to no avail by Democrats who have looked to the regions they represent and seen winnable odds. |
|
Also found in: [+]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Health]
[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
[newstrust :: Bill]
|
|
Key GOP state senator reaches compromise with Va. House on Medicaid
|
22.5.2018 |
Washington Post |
| Key GOP state senator reaches compromise with Va. House on Medicaid |
|
Also found in: [+]
[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
|
|
Hillary Clinton is Now a Victim of ‘Socialists’
|
21.5.2018 |
ConsortiumNews.com |
| Hillary Clinton is incapable of coming to terms with her loss and now finds fault with greedy capitalists who are turning young people into socialists, as Paul Street explains. By Paul Street Special to Consortium News Hillary Clinton’s take on…Read more → |
|
Also found in: [+]
[newstrust :: Single Payer]
[newstrust :: Third World Poverty]
[newstrust :: Regulation]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
|
|
Two doctors with opposing views on expanding Medi-Cal to immigrants here illegally
|
20.5.2018 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| To the editor: We can all agree that in a civilized society, access to quality healthcare should be a right. Far more complicated is determining how to pay for it. The analysis in your stellar editorial, “Now Is Not the Time to Expand Medi-Cal to Undocumented Adults,” points out that offering “free”...  |
|
Also found in: [+]
[flenvcenter :: Access]
[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
[newstrust :: Illegal Immigrant]
[newstrust :: Citizenship]
|
|
Millions of U.S. drivers may have lost licenses over traffic debt
|
20.5.2018 |
Washington Post |
| More than 7 million people nationwide may have had their driver’s licenses suspended for failure to pay court or administrative debt, a practice that advocates say unfairly punishes the poor, a Washington Post analysis found. |
|
The Health 202: These Republicans may pay a political price for their health-care votes
|
18.5.2018 |
Washington Post: Politics |
| And Democrats know it. |
|
Also found in: [+]
[newstrust :: Access]
[newstrust :: Leadership]
[newstrust :: Health]
|
|
The tax plan didn't do what it promised, but here's what might
|
17.5.2018 |
Washington Post: Op-Eds |
| The tax plan didn't do what it promised, but here's what might |
|
Also found in: [+]
[newstrust :: Unemployment]
[newstrust :: Housing]
[newstrust :: Jobs]
[newstrust :: Recession]
[demo :: Housing]
[newstrust :: Unemployment]
|
|
Scott Walker and the Failure of Trickle Down
|
17.5.2018 |
American Prospect |
| Governor Scott Walker speaks with reporters on February 1, 2018, in Madison, Wisconsin.
In January 2011, two new governors took office in the neighboring states of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Minnesota’s new governor, Democrat Mark Dayton, had campaigned largely on a platform of taxing the rich to provide the services the state needed. By contrast, Wisconsin’s new governor, Republican Scott Walker had pledged to cut taxes in order to create jobs. Over the course of the past seven years, these two governors have taken their states on vastly different trajectories: Minnesota to the left, and Wisconsin to the right.
How these two diametrically opposed approaches have played out has been chronicled before, including by the Prospect, where in 2015, as the governors embarked on their second terms, Ann Markusen wrote how “Minnesota and Wisconsin offer something close to a laboratory experiment in competing economic policies.” Now, nearing the completion of those second terms, the merits and problems of these two ... |
|
Also found in: [+]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
[newstrust :: Jobs]
[newstrust :: Unemployment]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[irge304 :: Green Power]
[kailas :: Inflation]
[kailas :: GDP]
|
|
If House Republicans Get Their Way, Rural Americans Are Screwed
|
16.5.2018 |
Mother Jones |
| Back in 2016, the Republican Party won the presidency and both chambers of Congress with strong support in rural areas, particularly among farmers. But since that triumph, the Grand Old Party hasn’t exactly been a champion of rural interests. As I’ve written in recent months, President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration is essentially an attack […] |
|
Also found in: [+]
[newstrust :: Endangered Species]
[newstrust :: Conservation Efforts]
[newstrust :: Legislation]
[nwct :: Healthcare_USMag]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Farm Bill]
[sattva_1 :: agriculture]
[sattva_1 :: health]
[irge304 :: Endangered Species]
[irge304 :: Conservation Efforts]
[irge304 :: Legislation]
[flenvcenter :: Industrial Agriculture]
[flenvcenter :: Chemicals]
[flenvcenter :: Global Food System]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[newstrust :: Farm Bill Poverty]
[flenvcenter :: Pesticides]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: China and Global Economy]
|
|
The Health 202: Here are three big ways the Trump administration could put its mark on Medicaid
|
16.5.2018 |
Washington Post: Politics |
| I interviewed Seema Verma yesterday. |
|
Now is not the time to expand Medi-Cal to undocumented adults
|
16.5.2018 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| Advocates of a single-payer healthcare system in California have struggled to come up with a realistic and feasible way to pay for it, so this year they’re pushing for more incremental steps toward universal health insurance coverage. The most far-reaching of these would be to expand Medi-Cal,...  |
|
Also found in: [+]
[newstrust :: Single Payer]
[newstrust :: Illegal Immigrant]
[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
|
|
Rev. William Barber Is Reviving MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign. He Got Arrested the First Day of Protests.
|
15.5.2018 |
Mother Jones |
| Fifty years after the first Poor People’s Campaign, organized by Martin Luther King Jr. shortly before his assassination and carried out after his death, activists have launched a new campaign for economic and social justice. Modeled after the original movement, where thousands of people descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC to protest poverty, the […] |
|
Also found in: [+]
[flenvcenter :: Social Justice]
[newstrust :: Health]
|
|
Fatal pedestrian crashes increasingly involve SUVs, study finds
|
15.5.2018 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Law & Justice |
Pedestrian deaths have spiked in the U.S. since 2010. SUVs have surged in popularity, but their design can be especially deadly for those on foot. |
|
How not to blow California's $8.8-billion windfall
|
15.5.2018 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| In January, when Gov. Jerry Brown released his initial spending proposal for the next fiscal year, the state’s budget experts were projecting about $6.1 billion in extra revenue. That was very good news. Now the news is even better. The expected surplus has grown to a whopping $8.8 billion, which...  |
|
Also found in: [+]
[newstrust :: Housing]
[demo :: Housing]
[demo :: Homeless]
|
|
Activists kick off new Poor People's Campaign, echoing MLK in 1968
|
15.5.2018 |
LA Times: Nation |
| Callie Greer, a community organizer from Selma, Ala., on Monday stepped on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol, a strip of sackcloth fastened around her upper left arm to signal she was willing to go to jail. Greer lost her daughter Venus, who could not afford health insurance, to breast cancer in 2013....  |
|
Also found in: [+]
[demo :: Housing]
[demo :: Rentals]
[demo :: Affordable Housing]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Social Justice]
|
|
Stock indexes end the day with small gains
|
15.5.2018 |
LA Times: Business |
| The major U.S. stock indexes ended with small gains Monday after an afternoon pullback weighed on small-company shares. The market had been broadly higher earlier in the day on hopes that trade tensions between the United States and China were easing. But much of that rally faded, leaving decliners...  |
|
Also found in: [+]
[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[newstrust :: China and Global Economy]
[newstrust :: Supreme Court]
|
|
Echoing MLK in 1968, activists kick off new Poor People's Campaign
|
14.5.2018 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| Carolina Alas, a fast-food worker from Richmond, Calif., does not meet official definitions of poverty. The 48-year-old immigrant from El Salvador has a full-time job working 40 hours a week, cooking hamburgers at a Jack in the Box. But Alas, a U.S. citizen, struggles to pay her $700 rent, phone...  |
|
Also found in: [+]
[demo :: Public Education]
[newstrust :: Citizenship]
[sdeepak :: Religious People]
[demo :: Housing]
[demo :: Rentals]
[demo :: Affordable Housing]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Social Justice]
[newstrust :: Election Law]
[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
|
|
Bus drivers, allies make a case for putting D.C. Circulator under city control
|
14.5.2018 |
Washington Post |
| Bus drivers, allies make a case for putting D.C. Circulator under city control |
|
Also found in: [+]
[flenvcenter :: Bus]
[flenvcenter :: Unions]
|
