Mike McGovern writes in The New York Times: “Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s accuser is from Guinea . . . Guineans leave their country in large numbers, partly because of grinding poverty; 70 percent live on less than $1.25 a day , despite the fact that Guinea has al…
Neil Irwin and Brady Davis report for The Washington Post: “The recession was hard on men, who saw construction and manufacturing jobs dry up, but the recovery is proving much kinder. In a rare turnabout, men are outpacing women in getting jobs as the ec…
Gerald Friedman writes on truthout: “It is not cost pressures on providers that are driving up health-care costs; instead, costs are rising because of what economists call transaction costs, the rising cost of administering and coordinating a system that…
Under the Ryan plan, “if there’s a health catastrophe, “you’re on your own,” said Terry O’Neill, president of the Washington-based National Organization for Women. Many women “have no savings, no ability to pay for this.”
Alex Orlando of the Tampa Tribune writes: A press release from the organization said the point of the rally was to keep the Congress from “block-granting Medicaid, privatizing Medicare, and fast-tracking cuts to Social Security.” NOW President Terry O’N…