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Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid

Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid

| Jul 17, 2024 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyConservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025, a “presidential transition project” of the Heritage Foundation, helpfully lays out how a group of former Trump officials...
I Keep The Affordable Care Act Working. Why Can’t I Afford to See My Own Doctor?

I Keep The Affordable Care Act Working. Why Can’t I Afford to See My Own Doctor?

| May 22, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI love my job. Every day I get to answer phone calls from some of the tens of millions of Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act and help them get the health care benefits they need.  Even though I do an essential job, my employer — the federal call center run...
God Bless Nurses — And Please Hurry!

God Bless Nurses — And Please Hurry!

| May 15, 2024 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedEvery religion prioritizes care for the needy. Christianity’s Benedictine Rule, for example, puts care of the sick atop the moral order — “above and before every other duty.” Really? Even above the holy Wall Street mandate that medical and insurance conglomerates must...
Life Happens. That’s Why We Need a Safety Net.

Life Happens. That’s Why We Need a Safety Net.

| Mar 6, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThings don’t always work out the way you expect. I’ve gotten to mix with celebrities and travel to the other side of the world. But I’m also a single mother who’s experienced health crises, homelessness, and food insecurity. What I’ve learned is we need public...
We Can Break The Cycle of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Prison

We Can Break The Cycle of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Prison

| Feb 28, 2024 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDuring my time in prison, I lived in hell. I witnessed horrific abuse, suffered from a critical lack of mental health care, and was treated as less than human. Guards even taunted inmates that we couldn’t change the system because our right to vote would be stripped...
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