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Webby Sondra Youdelman | Jul 31, 2020. One of every five working Americans – more than 32 million people – have lost their job to COVID-19. A tsunami of evictions will …

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This Is How Medicare For All Will Save Lives

WebThe plan collectively bargained by her labor union calls for a $500 annual deductible but no monthly premiums. Between the two plans, Elizabeth often is able to …

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Jonathan Kozol Explains What's Wrong With Health Care And …

WebI don’t think anyone who read “Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools” by Jonathan Kozol would easily forget it. It took me, a child of the leafy suburbs …

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Sick, Tired and Mad as Hell: We Demand an End to Care Denials at …

Web“What is our goal in being here today?” Mindy Salango from West Virginia Citizen Action Group asked the hundred protesters who took over the lobby of …

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Save Health Care for Nevada's Small Businesses

WebGOP Senators like Nevada's Dean Heller can take a stand for small businesses and working people by rejecting any plan that hurts not only communities …

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What's At Stake When We Talk About Healthcare

WebAll across the country, citizens at town hall meetings are asking hard questions to the 217 Republicans like New York's John Faso and Elise Stefanik who …

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Making a #HomesGuarantee a Reality For All OurFuture.org by …

WebMy name is Vernell Robinson, and I live on front lines of our nation’s housing crisis. My voice, and other voices of those directly affected by this crisis, belong at the …

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Real Health Care Solutions OurFuture.org by People's Action

WebEditor’s Note: “The 2008 election campaign is almost sure to be a health care election — even before we’ve done much organizing at all,” said America’s Future …

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Progressive Ideas Are Popular, They Win

WebA: One of our core problems, not just in the U.S., is this constant feeling, like, we say progressive ideas are popular. We say they enjoy majority support in most spots. …

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Jobs or Inequality

WebAn increasing number of people, including the President and New York’s new mayor, have suggested that inequality of wealth and opportunity is the defining issue of …

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The Union Bond OurFuture.org by People's Action

WebCorporations want to rig the scales in their favor. They push RTW laws so they can divide workers—tear at the union bond—and exploit them more easily. These …

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The AMA Is On The Wrong Side Of History On Medicare For All

WebThe AMA helped co-found the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, which is actually a corporate lobbying group set up to kill Medicare for All. To amplify the …

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New Mexico Shows How Public Ed Can Thrive After COVID-19

WebParr-Sanchez is the current president of NEA-New Mexico, the National Education Association’s affiliate in the Land of Enchantment, and “this” of course is the …

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Healthcare.gov Proves Liberal Government Works

WebIt's not as much fun to write about as a broken website, but Healthcare.gov is humming along this year. The Department of Health and Human Services reports that …

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The Founding Fathers Supported Socialized Medicine

WebIt turns out the founding fathers supported socialized medicine. In July of 1798, Congress passed - and President John Adams signed - "An Act for the Relief of …

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The AMA Stops Us From Getting Health Care

WebThe Red Menace is long gone, but the AMA still fights tooth and nail to restrict access to health care. Most recently, the AMA joined private insurers, hospitals, and …

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I’m Living Proof The CARE Act Will Save Lives

WebI know: I’m living proof. My name is Jerad Halcott, and I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. At ten, I was huffing prescription drugs, then I moved on to stronger …

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'More Of The Same' Won't End Conflict Over Standardized Testing

WebWe have a standoff over testing as the chief means of determining the fate of the nation's schools. A new call for congressional hearings provides a useful option to go …

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Newark’s School Crisis and the GOP’s War on Our Cities

WebThe Newark story is part of a larger pattern in which Republican governors override local governments, especially urban ones, to serve both their ideology and

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We Gave Pharma a Blank Check, Now We’re Paying the Bill

WebClick 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, …

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Our Liberty Is Bound Together OurFuture.org by People's Action

WebI want share a quote from Lilla Watson that many of you will know: “If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because …

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Fast Food With A Side Of Poverty, And What It Costs Us

WebEven at 40 hours a week, more than half of front-line fast-food workers are forced to rely on public assistance to cover basic needs like food, rent and health care. …

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