Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right. Vertical integration in healthcare has created deep conflicts of interest. As our FTC work revealed, these conglomerates have massively inflated the cost of lifesaving drugs. Rooting out these conflicts will mean better, more affordable care for everyone.

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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

In a new op-ed for The Nation, Institute Founding Director Darrick Hamilton explains why Starbucks Workers United baristas aren’t just part of the brand, they are the brand. Workers’ rights, fair schedules, and union power are essential to the company’s future.

How this Foxon Boulevard bus stop looks now. Obviously the only way to board here is to stand in the roadway.

President Trump headlined a Trump Account summit today, and one key difference matters: Trump Accounts reward families who already have wealth. Baby Bonds are designed to build wealth for kids born without it.

What Do We Owe the Insufferable? When mental illness exhausts our emotional capacities psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-do-we-o…

Tune in now! Listen as CRL’s Lucia Constantine and Yasmin Farahi join fellow guest Joseph Schuster to discuss the dangers of payday loan apps on the award-winning Consumer Finance Monitor podcast, hosted by Ballard Spahr LLP’s Alan Kaplinsky. ballardspahr.com/insights/blogs…

“Shias are a minority within a minority of Muslims in New York City, but more importantly we as [Shias] don’t have to explain what Shias are anymore. The fact that we have a mayor means that people understand the diversity of what it means to be Muslim.” ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

Colleges that withhold transcripts from students for debts owed to the institution traps these students in a cruel cycle: no transcript means it’s harder to find the good paying jobs that will help pay off the debt. This is cruelty—not accountability.

unusual_whales BNPL for rent is the economic equivalent of 'what if we made being broke more expensive?' If you can't afford rent this month, splitting it into installments with fees doesn't help, it just spreads the crisis across more months. This is dystopian.

Basically every military base in the country has government run grocery stores that work very well. They just don't want anyone but those willing to die for capital to have any kind of benefits at all.

Trump’s 530A Accounts are voluntary & privately managed, leaving outcomes dependent on private savings and charity. Baby Bonds take a different approach: public investment, grounded in research, built to provide real economic security at scale.

Because train travel is just better 😌🚂 #CTrail #HartfordLine #CT #TrainTravel

It takes 19 to 21 hours on a daily train to travel between Chicago and NYC, which is roughly the same distance as Beijing to Shanghai, a trip that takes only 4.5 hours by high-speed rail and runs 41 times a day in both directions. Our infrastructure is so far behind.

The #yalepsych Program for Recovery and Community Health has released the latest issue of "The Perch," a creative arts journal focused on mental health. bit.ly/4rFaGnT

Sometimes I wonder why I bother.l! The idea that we should leave lenders, that often focus on young people, unregulated and leave people unprotected without recourse to fairness rules cos "that'll teach em" is bizarre. I've spent my entire career trying to improve financial

Ramadan and Lent starting on the same day next week is going to be disastrous for the Catholic agenda because the Muslims are just going to wreck our shit. Complaining about not eating chocolate for 40 days while they go without food or drink from sunup to sundown, embarrassing.

I didn't realize till now that this specific instance of mathematical illiteracy is why so many American conservatives are obsessed with this topic. I'd noticed they were, but I couldn't understand why.

I wish we lived in a world where I didn't feel constantly compelled to post this video, but until then here's Tony Benn speaking on war with clarity and moral conviction that you won't see from the evil people running the world today