| Oct 4, 2017 | Economy / BusinessWhen I found out I was pregnant, one of the very first things I worried about was how to find a way to juggle family and work — which meant finding child care. I researched day care centers and found that every single facility within a mile of my home or workplace was...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthThe GOP twice failed to pass health care legislation this year. The bills fell short for many reasons, but I see an important one: By including drastic cuts to Medicaid benefits in their bills, Republican leaders picked a fight with the disability community. Hell hath...
| Sep 27, 2017 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthOur current health care system in the United States works just fine — for the corporate executives who run it. Take, for instance, Michael Mussallem, the CEO at Edwards Lifesciences — a California-based company that makes heart valves and assorted other medical...
| | Economy / BusinessRather than a health care system, our country’s leaders have kept us shackled to a “corporate care” system. This allows insurance giants, drug company gougers, hospital chains, and other profiteers to ration our care based on whether a family can pay...
| Sep 20, 2017 | Economy / BusinessWhat’s the largest personal stake a U.S. president has ever had in legislation he signed into law? Whatever it was, it’ll be dwarfed by what Donald Trump’s signature will be worth — to himself — if Congress passes his proposed tax plan and puts it on his desk....
| | Economy / BusinessDonald Trump’s failure to condemn white supremacists after the violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville several weeks back had an unexpected casualty: the president’s business advisory councils. My partner works for a Fortune 500 company whose CEO sat on...
