Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Caroline Brooks
Slow internet connections or limited access from homes in rural areas can contribute to students falling behind academically, according to a new study
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- Written by: Michael Williams
Price transparency is the wrong goal for the free-market health care structure we have in the U.S. Instead, consumers need to know not so much the price, but the costs of things.
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- Written by: Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. Between 50 and 100 million people are thought to have died, representing as much as 5 percent of the world’s population. Half a billion people were infected.
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- Written by: Christine Crudo Blackburn, et al
A potential crisis simmers in the shadows: The global dependence on China for the production of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment.
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- Written by: Michael Walden
Lately, many people have asked me, as an economist, a question I haven’t heard in years: Could a virus really send the global and U.S. economies into recession – or worse? Put more pertinently, will COVID-19 trigger an economic meltdown?
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- Written by: Brent Evans and Matthew Patrick Shaw
Paying back student loans is not an easy thing to do. One out of every 5 borrowers with outstanding student loan debt has fallen behind their payments.
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- Written by: Tony Cookson
A banking desert is an area without traditional financial institutions and services. They are common in rural areas because large financial institutions are reluctant to operate in less populated areas that are less profitable.
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- Written by: Jake Johnson
No one should have to beg for money to get the healthcare they need in the richest country on Earth.
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- Written by: Amity James, et al.
More than half of Australians over the age of 55 are open to downsizing, according to a new report based on a survey of 2,400 households.
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- Written by: David Salkever
If you thought workers’ hourly pay was finally rising, think again. At first glance, the latest data – which came out on Feb. 7 – look pretty good.
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- Written by: Steven Pressman
It’s hardly surprising that if a Democrat wins the White House, taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations will probably go up. How they’ll go up is the more interesting question.
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- Written by: Richard D. Wolff
What do we mean when we talk about “socialism”? Here are ten things about its theory, practice, and potential that you need to know.
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- Written by: Munden-Dixon and Leslie Roche
As California contends with drought, wildfires and other impacts of climate change, a small yet passionate group of residents are attempting to lessen these effects and reduce the state’s carbon emissions.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Make no mistake, how we pay for healthcare in the US is broken for many individuals and for many communities. Like a tire with a slow leak, without immediate repair, the outlook for the largest industry in the US economy is bleak.
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- Written by: Jake Johnson
Trump wants to destroy Medicaid while claiming to save it. This fiendish scheme is an Orwellian fable conjured up by the most shameless pack of liars to ever occupy our government.
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- Written by: Anand Giridharadas
It’s no secret that the biggest gains in the growing global economy are reaped by the extremely wealthy.
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- Written by: Faisal Chaudhry
The high price of insulin, which has reached as much as US$450 per month, has raised outrage across the country. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has called it a national embarrassment, wondering why U.S. residents should have to drive to Canada to buy cheaper insulin.
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- Written by: George Lakey
According to Atheendar Venkataramani, the study’s lead author and a professor in the university’s Perelman School of Medicine, economic instability can affect people’s mental well-being and drive up the risk of substance abuse.
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- Written by: Dean Baker
In such a world, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year in the United States.
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- Written by: Ellen Brown
Although the repo market is little known to most people, it is a $1-trillion-a-day credit machine, in which not just banks but hedge funds and other “shadow banks” borrow to finance their trades.
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- Written by: Eoin Higgins
Across the political spectrum, there is near consensus among these economists that a single-payer system would save money.
