A new Oxfam survey on worker well-being compares us to the other advanced and semi-advanced economies. America remains exceptional-y bad.
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For Workers, Unions and Public Pressure Get the Goods
Freight rail unions have gradually achieved their key demand from the labor dispute last year.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Obscure NIH Official Blocking Lower Drug Prices
Mark Rohrbaugh, a mid-level staffer at the National Institutes of Health, has consistently blocked the use of march-in rights to seize patents on high-cost drugs.
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The Socialist Emergence Inside the Democratic Tradition
At a conference for socialist elected officials, the task is to ‘represent the movement of the future in the movement of the present.’
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In 2023, Everyone Who Can Go Union Is Doing Just That
While employers illegally suppress blue-collar, retail and service workers, professionals and proto-professionals are unionizing in droves.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Prisoners of Their Own Device
How Congress underwrites the models that trap American policymaking
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Mr. Sanders Goes Away From Washington
The new chair of the Senate HELP Committee plans to hold numerous field hearings to bring attention to issues in health care, labor, and education.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Moderna’s COVID Vaccine Price Hike Reveals Government’s Failure
The U.S. co-invented the mRNA vaccine. So why doesn’t it act like it?
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Bernie to Biden: You Can Give Rail Workers Sick Days
The Vermont senator leads over 70 members of Congress urging the president to sign an executive order extending sick days for federal contract workers to the rail industry.
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Red Wave to Repro Wave—and What’s Next
In blue states and red, voters backed reproductive freedoms in the midterm elections.