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No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care

As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.

Low-income parents risk jail time for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the less affluent out.

Life expectancy in my Western Pa. town is on its way down. But there’s hope — if we fight harmful myths about poverty.

Trump keeps giving tax breaks and federal contracts to companies that send Midwestern jobs — like mine — out of the country.

Trump’s environmental policies are a daily slog of bad news, but committed activists are slowly changing the story.

Plutocracy means spending millions to harass hungry poor families who have a dime more than Trump thinks they should have.

There’s a terrible human cost when companies like Uber misclassify their workers. A new law could change that.

The man Trump charged with protecting our public lands doesn’t believe we should have any.

Candidates should pledge that the middle class won’t pay $1 more in new taxes until billionaires put up at least $1 trillion.

The Trump administration is moving money away from disaster relief to lock up more immigrants.