An Easier Way to Get to Universal Health Care by Fran Korten — YES! Magazine
Now is the time to push for better health care. Here are three modest, winnable first steps.
If we keep treating health insurance as a product, nothing will change
One of the biggest problems with health insurance is that we allow Republicans to treat it as if it is a consumer product.
In Harvey's Wake, Residents Near Houston Industry Suffer Pollution Spike
Refinery shutdowns leave communities vulnerable to releases of hazardous emissions
India's sugarcane farmers: A cycle of debt and suicide | India | Al Jazeera
How rising debts, pesticides and erratic rainfall are pushing some farmers in southern India to suicide.
The Resistance Wins First Round on Healthcare
Yesterday, the Center for Popular Democracy brought over a thousand people together in Washington D.C. to protest the Republican plan to take healthcare from an estimated 24 million Americans. This afternoon, March 24, Republicans pulled their bill from the floor. With today’s failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, we see the fruits…