New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche
Medicaid cuts are being used to push austerity in hospitals’ contract negotiations with nurses, even as some hospitals dabble in financial speculation and their CEOs rake in millions.
Issue 221: January/February 1999
features
-
It's a Bank-Eat-Bank World
-
Beyond Patching the Safety Net: A Welfare and Work Survival Strategy
-
Health Workers Confront Managed Care
-
Gold, Greed, and Cyanide
-
The Philippines: Another IMF Causalty
the regulars
- lettersCoops and More Coops
- the short runIs the PTA Selling Out? Does God Favor Employers?
- active cultureOrganizing as a Human Right / Pie Day
- commentCookies are Not So Sweet
- making senseThe True Scandal of American Politics / George Soros: Beware Fundamentalism / Nobel Prize Winner Tweaks Free Marketeers / Social Insecurity
- in reviewRent Control, Impacts of the Termination of Rent Control, and Toy Wars
- ask dr. dollarHousehold Wealth in the United States
- economy in numbersDoes Inequality Cause Overwork?