Economy / Business - OtherWords

Rural America Needs Medicare for All, and Fast

I’m a registered nurse from rural Iowa. In communities like mine, privatized care is an extractive industry — and it’s drying up.

We’ve “grown the pie” massively since the 1980s, but it hasn’t resulted in ordinary Americans getting a bigger slice.

Wealthy families have rigged college admissions for generations, but they want you to blame affirmative action.

Illnesses and injury shouldn’t bankrupt workers or their employers. Let’s pool resources to protect all of us.

Too often we get sticker shock at the cost of public policies, even when they’d actually save us money.

Paper receipts generate enormous amounts of waste each year — and hardly anyone needs them.

“Student-athletes” make billions for others while putting their own futures at risk.

They’re building robots to siphon farm profits out of local communities and into the pockets of rich investors.

Two-thirds of Americans — and nearly all Democratic presidential candidates — now agree that pot prohibition is more harmful than pot itself.

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect our democracy — and our planet.