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JOBS, Again
The 21st century United States needs many services the private sector doesn't provide so well, such as preschool and post-secondary education and health and dental care.

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FDA Opens Review of Rules for Over-the-Counter Drugs, Including Acetaminophen
The US Food and Drug Administration has launched a review of the way it ensures the safety and use of over-the-counter drugs taken by hundreds of millions of Americans, …

Is Obamacare Bad News for the “It’s Hard to Find Good Help” Crowd?
Dean Baker: Obamacare might be the best news on the wage front that most workers have seen for some time.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Hospitals Close as Georgia Continues to Block the Medicaid Expansion, and More
Another rural Georgia hospital is closing its doors as that state continues to block the Medicaid expansion, and more.

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When a University Hospital Backs a Surgical Robot, Controversy Ensues
Flipping through the New York Times magazine a few Sundays ago, former hospital executive Paul Levy was taken aback by a full-page ad for the da Vinci robot.

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The Real Illness Plaguing US Healthcare: Inequality
The lens of real estate and finance gives us an interesting look at how our healthcare system is part and parcel of an edifice that enables the rich to …

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America Has Forgotten That We Don’t Have Freedom if We Don’t Have Free Time
The debate over Obamacare and voluntary work reduction raises intriguing questions.

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In ‘Nuestro Texas,’ A Call for Human Rights in Reproductive Health Care
A new report on access to reproductive health care in the Rio Grande Valley highlights the human rights violations happening right in the US.

Job Killer? How Media Spin Got Obamacare Wrong – and Why Single-Payer Could Cure Its Actual Flaws
Obamacare is a job killer u2014 that was the message across the media this week after the release of a new Congressional Budget Office report about the Affordable Care …

Vermont Students, Workers Object to Tuition Dollars Being Used to Fund Poverty Wages
Rising tuition, faculty cuts and non-living wages for workers at Vermont colleges are prompting student labor organizers to ask if tuition dollars should be used to exacerbate inequality.