Economy

Details: Written by: Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams

Thunderous Applause Welcomes Sanders' Call for Medicare-for-All 'We have got to end the international disgrace of being the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a right not a privilege.'

Details: Written by: Bernard Weisberger, BillMoyers.com

Exposing The Big Lie That Social Security Is Ponzi Scheme In these pestilent, perilous times, when the very idea of distinction between truth and falsehood is under siege, it’s more critical than ever to keep a sharp lookout for destructive false analogies.

Details: Written by: Arun Gupta, YES! Magazine

The West Coast Will Determine the Fate of the Fossil Fuel Industry All along the Pacific Coast, environmentalists are gearing up for an epic fight.

Details: Written by: Jean-Noel Barrot, MIT Sloan School of Management

How Speeding Up Payments To Small Businesses Creates Jobs Operating a small business, the backbone of the U.S. economy, has always been tough. But small businesses have also been disproportionately hurt

Details: Written by: Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams

New Evidence that Poor Americans Pay the Highest Taxes and Get Little of the Safety Net The American tax system, in which those with the least pay the most.

Details: Written by: Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine

How Small Scale Farming Could Restore America’s Rural Towns

Although many people in these struggling regions voted for the new president, his cynical answers will not bring them prosperity. But I saw what could.

Details: Written by: James Ward, University of South Australia; et al.

Why We Need To Rethink The Growth And Sustainability Connection Our economy and society ultimately depend on natural resources: land, water, material (such as metals) and energy.

Details: Written by: Stanford University

Performance Test Scores Cast Doubt On Viability Of School Voucher Programs Proponents of “school choice” say that voucher programs—which allow parents to use state education funds to enroll their children in private schools

Details: Written by: Gerry Everding, Washington University in St. Louis

New Poll Finds The Most And Least Popular Parts Of Affordable Care Act As House Republicans labor to define a new plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, often called “Obamacare,” public support for the 2010 legislation is at an all-time high, according to a national survey taken in January.

Details: Written by: Isaiah J. Poole, OurFuture.org

The Proposed Infrastructure Plan Won’t Bridge the Nation’s Job Gap President Trump on Tuesday night made what he told a meeting of governors on Monday would be “a big statement” on infrastructure spending.

Details: Written by: Chuck Collins, YES! Magazine

Why Wealth Alone Won’t Save Billionaire Doomsday Preppers The wealthy will not be able to build a wall high enough or a silo deep enough. The only solution is to bring your wealth home and invest in community resilience to ensure the survival of all.

Details: Written by: Kevin Shih, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

If You Want A Stronger Economy Give Immigrants A Warm Welcome Immigrants have long been a scapegoat when economies are sputtering, jobs are being lost or security is a concern.

Details: Written by: Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams

Medicare For All Only Way To Keep Healthcare Promises Plans put forth by House Speaker Paul Ryan and HHS Secretary Tom Price are 'unlikely' to fulfill President Donald Trump's campaign promises—'but single payer could'

Details: Written by: Sheena Rice, University of Missouri

When Food Stamp Benefits Go Up, These ER Visits Go Down In 2014, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a federal program to address food insecurity in the United States, provided $70 billion in nutrition support to 46.5 million families and children living in 22.7 million American households.

Details: Written by: Jill Rosen, Johns Hopkins University

US Teens In Poverty Go Hungry So Siblings Can Eat A survey of about 1,500 extremely disadvantaged families in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio shows teenagers go without food twice as often as their younger brothers and sisters.

Details: Written by: Bert Gambini, University at Buffalo

In America, Less Education Often Means More Chronic Pain Older Americans with less money and education are much more like to suffer from chronic pain than wealthier adults with more education.

Details: Written by: Suzanne Rice, University of Melbourne; Helen Watt, Monash University, and Paul Richardson, Monash University

How To Get Quality Teachers In Disadvantaged Schools Quality teaching is one of the largest influences on student learning. Yet, not all students have access to a great teacher.

Details: Written by: Geoff Masters, Australian Council for Educational Research

Do We Need To Rethink How We Assess Learning In Schools? There is a major flaw in the way we currently assess school students. By labelling them as either “good” or “poor” learners based on their overall grades at the end of each year, students have no clear idea whether they are making progress over extended periods of time.

Details: Written by: Julie Sloane, University of Pennsylvania

How It Feels When People See You As Less Human In a recent study, American participants placed Muslims and Mexican immigrants significantly closer to the ape-like ancestor than Americans as a whole.

Details: Written by: Christa Hillstrom, YES! Magazine

How Neighbors Turned Unused Buildings into a Thriving Community Hub As rents rise and independent businesses in Minneapolis lose their leases to large national chains, a first-of-its-kind co-op found a solution.

Details: Written by: Jim Patterson, Vanderbilt University

How Health Insurance Binds Neighbors Together Access to health insurance can help hold a community together socially, and lack of it can help fray neighborhood cohesion, report researchers.