The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid
Republicans want to make it even harder for low-income people to get health care.
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View articlesMark Weisbrot is Research Director at the Preamble Center for Public Policy, Washington, DC, and author of "Unequal Sacrifice: The Impact of Changes Proposed by the Advisory Council on Social Security
View articlesAli Zaidi is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Rochester.
View articlesJeremy Smith is publisher of Dollars and Sense. Howard Rosenfeld works with Free Radio Gainesville and Gainesville’s Civic Media Center, a nonprofit reading room of the alternative press.
View articlesTerry O'Keefe is a freelance business writer and columnist from Oakland, California. His bi-weekly journal of commentary on business, politics, and change is available on the Internet. He can be reach
View articlesCarolyn Bigda is a Dollars & Sense intern and an undergraduate at Northwestern University.
View articlesDerek Wright is a member of United Faculty and Academic Staff (American Federation of Teachers Local 223) and the International Socialist Organization in Madison, Wisconsin.
View articlesPhineas Baxandall is a lecturer at the Committee for Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University and a member of the Dollars & Sense collective.
View articlesIn 1978, Jim O'Brien was a staff member of the New England Free Press and an editor of Radical America. He now teaches in the College of Public and Community Service of the University of Massachusetts
View articlesThad Williamson is a doctoral student in political theory at Harvard and a Dollars & Sense collective member. David Imbroscio is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisvill
View articlesChris Sturr is a member of the Dollars & Sense collective. Amy Offner is a Dollars & Sense co-editor.
View articlesEsther Cervantes is a recent graduate of the LBJ School at the University of Texas and was a Dollars & Sense intern last fall. Amy Gluckman is a co-editor of Dollars & Sense.
View articlesJames Woolman is a graduate student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Dollars & Sense intern.
View articlesPasqualino Colombaro has been a social and labor activist in Boston for the past 30 years.
View articlesCraig Aaron is the communications director at Free Press, a media democracy organization. He was formerly managing editor of In These Times and an investigative reporter for Public Citizen's Congress
View articlesJay Blair is a former intern at Dollars & Sense. Daniel Fireside is books editor at Dollars & Sense.
View articlesWilliam Greider is a journalist and the author of many books, including Secrets of the Temple, Who Will Tell The People?, and The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to A Moral Economy.
View articlesMason Gaffney is professor of economics at the University of California, Riverside. He has been a journalist with TIME, Inc.; a researcher with Resources for the Future; the head of the British Columb
View articlesPeter Wagner is executive director of the Prison Policy Initiative [http://www.prisonpolicy.org]. Susan Edwards is a government documents librarian at Amherst College. Together they are writing a book
View articlesCheryl Marihugh has worked extensively on social and environmental issues globally with business, NGOs, and multilateral institutions. Most recently, she was director of the global labor practices pro
View articlesSam Uretsky is a retired hospital pharmacist who frequently writes about health care policy and finanacing.
View articlesPaul Bigman has been a labor activist for more than 30 years, including over 20 years as a full-time union organizer. He is currently the Western Regional Field Organizer for Jobs with Justice, a nati
View articlesStephen Zarlenga is the director of the American Monetary Institute, the author of The Lost Science of Money , and creator of the AMI Monetary Reform Conferences held annually in Chicago.
View articlesSusan F. Feiner is professor of economics and women's studies at the University of Southern Maine. Drucilla K. Barker is professor of economics and women's studies at Hollins University. They are co-a
View articlesAnn Markusen teaches in the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California at Berkeley.
View articlesKatherine Flaherty is a Dollars & Sense intern; she graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 2009 with a degree in economics.
View articlesSteve Early worked for 27 years as an organizer and negotiator for the Communications Workers of America. He is the author of The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor (Haymarket Books, 2011).
View articlesSteven Pressman is professor of economics and finance at Monmouth University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including 50 Major Economists, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2006).
View articlesLarry Peterson is a member of the D&S collective. He writes a series of postings entitled "The Dull Compulsion of the Economic" on the D&S blog [/blog].
View articlesDaniel Fireside es el editor de libros en Dollars & Sense.
View articlesDavid Bacon is a California-based writer and photographer. He is the author of several books about migration. His latest book, More Than a Wall/Mas que un Muro, was just published by the Colegio de la
View articlesLin Nelson is retired from teaching at The Evergreen State College, is a member of Strengthening Sanctuary Alliance (an immigrant rights group, based in Olympia, Wash.), and is part of the COSH Adviso
View articlesEricka Wills is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin’s School for Workers.
View articlesC. P. CHANDRASEKHAR was engaged in teaching and research at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for more than 30 years. JAYATI GHOSH is a professo
View articlesFrank Stricker is on the board of the National Jobs for All Network. He wrote Why America Lost the War on Poverty (2007) and American Unemployment: Past, Present, and Future (2020). He is emeritus pro
View articlesAustin Landis is an independent multimedia journalist based in Medellín, Colombia. She previously covered U.S. politics in Washington, D.C., with a focus on immigration policy.
View articlesChris Maisano is a trade unionist and an active member of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
View articlesKalena Thomhave is an independent journalist and researcher on inequality. She is based in Pittsburgh.
View articlesMike Prokosch is a carpenter and popular economics educator in Boston. He is also a member of the Dollars & Sense board.
View articlesNancy Folbre is Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research explores the interface between political economy and feminist theory.
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