Economy and Business
Your Boss Shouldn’t Get to Have ‘Religious’ Objections to Your Health Care
When Obamacare — aka, the Affordable Care Act — became law in 2010, it mandated coverage of birth control without co-payments. Some employers didn't like the rule, and Hobby Lobby hated it so much that the company filed a lawsuit to stop it. Company owners said they...
So Many Tax Lies, So Little Time
In most cases, it’s best practice to cut through the media noise and go straight to the source to understand what’s happening in public policy. Donald Trump’s tax plan is not one of those cases. The president is crisscrossing the country giving speeches to crowds...
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Paid for with Your Health Care
When Republican leaders tried to repeal health care in the spring and summer, many Americans raised the alarm and made a ruckus. We asked hard questions, looked at the independent analyses, held town halls, told our health care stories, and took to the streets....
What Happened to Trump’s Pledge to Close This Billionaire Loophole?
These are hard times for America's gold miners. They're scrambling to get ahead, but seeing their pay dropping. Take Bob Mercer, who's been a top miner for years, but last year even Bob was down. He pulled in only $125 million in pay. Can you feel Bob's pain? Well,...
American Child Care Is In Crisis
When 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...
Don’t Mess With the Disability Community
The 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...
We Get Sick, They Get Rich
Our 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...
Our Health Care System Is a Corporate Care System
Rather 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 whatever...
Trump’s Tax Plan: A Billion or Three for Guys Like Him
What’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. If that...
Can Anti-Racist Businesses Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is?
Donald 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 one those...
