When COVID-19 was at its worst, many doctors wanted to go where they were most needed. Their bosses said no.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Does COVID-19 Damage the Immune System?
The balance of evidence strongly indicates that outside of rare cases, it does not.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Last Pandemic Welfare Supports Get Kicked Out
Expirations around Medicaid and food stamps reinforce how Democrats failed to live up to professed ambitions on the welfare state.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Tenants Who Went to Washington
The Homes Guarantee Campaign got the attention of policymakers at the highest levels. Now these tenant organizers want to get the policy.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Making Paid Sick Time a Reality
Organizing for paid leave, which is on the verge of passing in Minnesota, is part of a larger challenge to reverse an abusive workplace status quo.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Fed’s Favorite Inflation Measure Has Some Large Holes
There are strong reasons to think we can have stable prices and low unemployment.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Myth of Jeffrey Zients
There is no reason to trust a longtime corporate stooge to serve as President Biden’s chief of staff.
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?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Inflation in an Unequal World Economy
How the Fed’s policies are doubly perverse for the Global South
Posted inEconomic Policy
Supply Shocks, Inflation, and the Limits of Monetary Policy
The major source of inflation was supply bottlenecks that are already subsiding for reasons unrelated to Fed rate hikes.
