Blog: Policy
Last week students spoke out at American University in Washington, D.C. Today the protest was at Columbia University in New York City Amidst the pomp and pride that is graduation day across America, students, frustrated with the huge debts taken on to attend college, are banding together and pressing for solutions. They want a real future, not a life of loan repayment.
They get it: Robin Hood is a game changer. Their...
Washington State now has been added to the roster of states where people with serious health problems find themselves bankrupt as a result of the costs of care.
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle studied 200,000 cancer patients and found an astonishingly high rate of insolvency for these very sick individuals. The comparison of bankruptcy records with information from the regional cancer registry led to these findings...
They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, south to Atlanta and Miami, to the towns of Western Massachusetts, in New York City and beyond, and they entered offices on Capitol Hill in a national “Educate Congress” letter-drop campaign. 190 members of Congress were delivered this urgent message, a reminder that the country’s deteriorating condition needs to be addressed with meaningful policies that bring...
Among the most critical goals set forth in the Inclusive Prosperity Act, H.R. 1579, reintroduced in Congress on April 17 by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), is to “create good paying jobs by… investing in public sector jobs and green jobs.” Sec. 2 (13)(B)(ii) Other facets of this important legislation – investing in “transportation including public mass transit and an infrastructure bank that promotes environmentally...
