Is it possible that the people of these rural communities, under the stress of a broken health care system, can spark a movement to fix health care for the nation?
How This Rural Wisconsin County Put Publicly Funded, Non-Profit, National Health Care on the Ballot
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Biden Taps Anti-Social Security Ideologue To Oversee Program
Biden nominated Andrew Biggs, a think tank denizen with a history of slamming Social Security, to oversee government retirement benefits for 66 million Americans.
Biden Taps Anti-Social Security Ideologue To Oversee Program
Trump Just Fulfilled His Billionaire Pal’s Dream
Trump Just Fulfilled His Billionaire Pal’s Dream
As news cycles were consumed by Trump deliberately inflaming social unrest and threatening a domestic military invasion, the president’s political appointees were approving a regulatory change that could transfer hundreds of billions of dollars of Americans’ retirement savings to private equity firms. Those are the Gordon Gekko–run outlets that have become famous for fleecing investors, laying off workers, gutting local economies, strip-mining media outlets and creating public health and environmental disasters — all while minting Wall Street billionaires.
The Trump administration’s new directive came just a few months after private equity billionaire Stephen Schwarzman — who had been pushing for the change — poured $3 million into a super PAC backing Trump’s reelection bid.