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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...
With the passage in the U.S. Senate Monday of a new sales tax on internet purchasers, activists in the Robin Hood Tax Campaign today asked, “if we can tax the world wide web, why not the world wide banks?”
The Marketplace Fairness Act would target what the National Conference of State Legislatures estimates is $23.3 billion in lost sales tax revenue in 2012 for sales made on line rather than at brick and mortar stores.
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