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Rural America Needs Medicare for All Now
Rural America is facing a health care emergency – and Medicare for All is the answer. Hospitals in rural Iowa, where I live, are closing or teetering on the brink of closure at an alarming rate. Over a hundred have shut down since 2005, and hundreds more are on life...
Progressive Breakfast
Pharma Execs Face Senate Questions Congress to square off against pharmaceutical CEOs in showdown over drug prices. USA Today: "Expect sparks to fly Tuesday as senators get a rare chance to grill the heads of seven major pharmaceutical companies under oath about the...
We Gave Pharma a Blank Check, Now We’re Paying the Bill
Click here to watch pharmaceutical executives testify to the Senate Finance Committee on February 26, 2019 at 10:15 a.m. Rebecca Hovde from Wellman, Iowa, has taken medicine to treat her rare autoimmune disease for years. Recently, she learned the drug her life...
Progressive Breakfast
Structural Racism Drives EPA's Response To Air Pollution EPA’s Bungled Response to an Air Pollution Crisis Exposes a Toxic Racial Divide. The Intercept: "After a crucial division of the Environmental Protection Agency reassessed the dangers of two key pollutants —...
Broke Students Need Solutions, Not A Magic Genie
Winter can be a miserable time in New Hampshire. When it’s cold outside, all you really want to do is curl up with a warm dog on your lap. This was especially true for me last Monday, when my phone rang after a long day at work. Instead of taking a breather, I found...
Progressive Breakfast
House Dems Press Resolution To End 'National Emergency' House Democrats push ahead with bid to terminate Trump's emergency declaration. NBC: "House Democrats planned to push ahead Friday with a measure that seeks to terminate President Donald Trump’s emergency...
Immigrants Aren't the Emergency
Midland, Michigan, where my husband and I are raising our two young children, is a small town surrounded by rural communities. Many of us living here have seen, generation-by-generation, that we’re falling behind. Our anxiety is real, but we wholeheartedly reject...
Progressive Breakfast
White Supremacist Arrested In Plot To Murder Journalists, Democrats Coast Guard officer plotted to kill Democrats and journalists, prosecutors say. NYT: "A Coast Guard lieutenant and self-described white nationalist who was arrested in Maryland last week was plotting...
Chicago’s Homeless Are Freezing and Dying
Jock Toles in Chicago. Photo credit: Diego Morales, Chicago DSA The polar vortex froze Chicago’s city streets with temperatures as low as minus 23 degrees. It was subzero for 52 hours straight. This was hard on everyone, but it hit the city’s 80,000 homeless the...
Progressive Breakfast
IL Signs $15 Minimum Wage Illinois workers celebrate 'Life-Changing' $15 minimum wage. Common Dreams:NJ Signs Paid Family Leave Big changes coming for paid family leave in N.J. as Murphy signs law. NJ.com: "Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Tuesday an extensive...
