Explaining the Rise in Median Wages
New Census data show rising incomes and shrinking poverty, although it’s not quite time to bust out the champagne.
Does This Definition Make Me Look Rich?
No statistical contortion can hide the growing divide between the 1 percent and everyone else.
INFOGRAPHIC: The Obamacare Benefit You’ve Never Heard Of
How a little-known provision in the Affordable Care Act saved Americans $72 million
Our Health Care System is Still Sick
The health industry is about making money, not healing.
Lifesaving Law
Steve Gepner’s story illustrates the importance of one of the Affordable Care Act’s key provisions.
The ‘Freedom’ to Refuse Health Insurance
Raise your hand if you don’t want any health insurance.
Health Care Access Shouldn’t Require Good Luck
For me, the Affordable Care Act means that when I graduate from college, I won’t have to take a job that I hate to get the health care that I need.
Corporations Score another Supreme Court Victory
The Affordable Care Act ruling won’t heal our ailing health system.
This Ruling Is Good for Your Health
Despite years of polarized debate, many people still don’t know what’s in this law.
Our Health Care Racket
The purpose of America’s health care industry is to provide cozy income to the few at the top while abusing the poorly paid health aides at the bottom and consigning vast swaths of the population to inadequate care.
Big Corporation, Tiny Heart
Walmart is displaying its incredibly shriveled ethical center by whacking the already meager health care benefits that hundreds of thousands of its workers count on.
With Poverty on the Rise, this is no Time to Slash the Safety Net
The tea party and its ilk offer us only cold cups of bitter tea while serving up fountains of champagne to the super-rich, Wall Street, and big corporations.
America Needs a Single Payer Health Care System
Even if Obama’s overhaul works as planned, there will still be 23 million Americans lacking health insurance in 2019.
We Must Preserve Health Care Reform
Ensuring children access to comprehensive health coverage is one of the smartest, most cost-effective choices our country can make.
Denying Health Care to Americans is Un-American
Arguments against health care reform are self-centered.