Performance-based pay packages incentivize claim denials and other harmful practices.
corporate power
Posted inEconomic Policy
Deregulation Swings the Pendulum Toward Financial Crash
The Federal Trade Commission’s decline is a symptom of a public policy designed primarily to protect asset prices.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
UnitedHealth Has 2,694 Subsidiaries and Affiliates. Is It Too Big to Manage?
This behemoth conglomerate might just be too monstrous for its own good.
Posted inWorking in America
Who Pushed Trump Into Halting Raids, and Is It for Real?
Farmworkers struggle against deportation and even lower wages.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Why Is a Former Obama Official Attacking the Left on Climate?
She worked on climate change for Obama. Now she’s greenwashing climate change on behalf of Big Oil.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
‘So Much Evil Had To Happen for this Bill To Pass’
Oregon just made corporate medicine illegal, again. Here’s how it happened.
Posted inWorking in America
The Escalating, Bloody Exploitation of Meat Workers Under Trump
Conditions in meatpacking plants are set to return to scenes from ‘The Jungle.’
Posted inTransportation
Industry Lobbyists Pitch Driverless ‘Ghost Trains’ Across America
Buoyed by Trump’s deregulatory agenda, rail companies press for cost-cutting measures that could undermine railroad safety.
Posted inPolitics
Empowering Big Tech Whistleblowers Gets a Senate Boost
The House passed a measure to eliminate all state regulation of artificial intelligence for a decade. The last line of defense may be legislation from Sen. Chuck Grassley.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Golden Age of Scams
How Trump’s second term will unleash dishonesty and abuse across the economy
