On the abiding despair of the failed Trump assassin’s post-COVID, private equity–looted nursing home
nursing homes
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Our Workforce Needs More Immigrants
Today on TAP: Can Biden link good economics with good politics?
Posted inWorking in America
A Great Week for American Workers
Thanks to autoworkers, baristas, and some Biden administration agencies
Posted inWorking in America
Turning the Tables in Minnesota
An enduring union-community alliance in the Twin Cities may be a model for progressive victories.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Casualties of a Failed Health Care System
Why even an elite Boston hospital can feel like a makeshift infirmary in a war zone
Posted inWorking in America
Can Biden’s Executive Order Deliver for Care Workers?
Absent the Build Back Better bill, the fight for care workers continues at the state level, and with Biden’s executive order.
Posted inWorking in America
Want a Safer Workplace? Join a Union.
Non-union businesses tend not to publicly report workplace injuries and illnesses. Unionized businesses generally do.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s All the Same Fight
Reflections on a week in the age of corporate power
Posted inBooks
Days of Plunder
Two new books call ‘private equity’ what it actually is, but neither offers much hope for emancipation from our eternal hostile takeover.
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Who Cares About Care?
Today on TAP: Biden’s latest order is well-intentioned, but the caring economy needs a lot more money.