by Meghan Byrd | Apr 6, 2015 | Gender Justice, Health, Jobs and Growth
A mother with a newborn baby in Canada has the right to receive paid family leave. So do mothers in France, Brazil, Australia, Pakistan, Venezuela - even Russia. But not those in the United States. Our country is one of only five in the world, and the only developed...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Health
Peasants with pitchforks don’t normally wear lab coats and hold medical degrees. Hagop Kantarjian does. Kantarjian currently chairs the leukemia department at the prestigious M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, one of America’s top oncology facilities. But the...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Health, Progressive Vision
Shock and awe describes the budgets issued last week by Republicans in the House and Senate. The shock is that the GOP never stops trying to destroy beloved programs like Medicare. Awe inspiring is their audacity in describing their killing plans as moral. When the...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 17, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Health, People's Budget, Progressive Vision
Budgets, as Rev. Jim Wallis says, are moral documents. They contain choices that reflect our priorities and define our values. The Republican-led House Budget Committee’s fiscal 2016 budget proposal, “A Balanced Budget For A Stronger America,” is a document full of...
by Diane Archer | Mar 10, 2015 | Health
In a presentation to the National Academy on Social Insurance that traces Medicare’s 50-year history, influential Princeton health economist Uwe Reinhardt explains how Medicare controls costs despite the overwhelming influence of special interests in shaping Medicare...
by Jim Hightower | Mar 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Health
p>The GOP-led House of Representatives has already achieved a historic legislative record. A record in futility, that is. And absurdity. In February, for the 56th time, they focused the entire array of brain cells in their 245-member caucus on an effort that would...
