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 263
8 articles
The Political Economy of the Prison Crisis
The huge expansion of the criminal justice system in the United States over the past thirty years has replaced social welfare programs with mass incarceration.
<a href="https://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2006/0106woolmanmcbride.pdf">Medicare D gets an F</a>
https://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2006/0106woolmanmcbride.pdf
Dear Dr. Dollar:
Can you explain how poverty is defined in government statistics? Is this a realistic definition? —Susan Balok, Savannah, Ga.