by Sarah Chaisson-Warner | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to delay the vote on his odious health care repeal until after the July 4 recess reflects the tremendous pressure people are placing on lawmakers to own up to the harm this bill will cause – and the need for us to...
by Claire Snell-Rood, Cathleen Willging | Jun 26, 2017 | Blog
Much has been made of the distress and discontent in rural areas during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Few realize, however, this is also felt through unequal health. Researchers call it the “rural mortality penalty.” While rates of mortality have steadily...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 26, 2017 | Blog
Reams of commentary have been written about the results of the recent special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. Jon Ossoff lost the seat, which was left vacant by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, to his Republican rival by a margin...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 26, 2017 | Blog
This is it. The Senate has to decide on health care. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell is pushing for a Thursday vote on the Senate plan that will deprive millions of Americans of health care coverage, and raise premiums to tens of millions more. There will be...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog
Charter schools have become a fetish of both Democratic and Republican political establishments, but local news reports continue to drip, drip a constant stream of stories of charter schools doing bad stuff that our tax dollars fund. An independent news outlet in New...
by Valerie Woody | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog
Sleepy but excited voters got on a bus at dawn in Charleston to ride six hours over the Allegheny Mountains to Washington, DC so they could ask their senators to save health care for West Virginians before it's too late. This group of grassroots activists made the...
