By Elisabeth Rosenthal, Senior Contributing Editor, Health News Analysis, joined KFF Health News in 2016 as Editor-in-Chief after 22 years as a correspondent with The New York Times. Originally published…
Yves here. Get a cup of coffee. This is an in-depth discussion of Michael Hudson’s extensive work on the origins and effects of periodic debt jubilees versus the enshrinement of…
Yves here. Like author Sonali Kolhatkar, your humble blogger has been skeptical of a four day, or better yet, 32 hour workweek without an increase in worker compensation. By Sonali…
Yves here. A success in union organizing in Georgia is a welcome contrast to the worker defeat of the hard-fought battle over the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Note that…
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The ostensible goal of the operation is to provide “support and assistance to the Special Operations of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and National Police of Peru,” including…
When I was last in New York City, I heard a sadly common display of class privilege when a woman waiting in my chiropractor’s office initiated a rant on the…
Yves here. I had no idea that Medicaid was such a heavyweight in total US health care. This is remarkable in what it says indirectly about poverty and income instability…
Yves here. Predictably, policy-makers prefer the climate change version of wunderwaffen to traditional approaches with less NGO-busying and producer-enriching. And that before getting to the fact that lower tech works…
Yves says she has to get up very today for estate duties, and so must sleep when she would otherwise be posting. So wish her luck, and she’ll make it…