My introduction to the Tea Party involved a Town Hall meeting where several Tea Party seniors were waving signs inscribed “Save our Medicare.” They
Category: Social Sec/Medicare
New rules for Medicaid managed care: What do they mean for Missouri?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just released new rules, the first in over a decade, for Medicaid managed programs. These
No excuses: Expand Medicaid
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch correctly identifies problems with the Missouri Medicaid program (“Medicaid missteps,” May 10). But citing the system as “broken” as a
ATM fees rip off $19 million from California’s public-assistance recipients
Big banks lifted more than $19 million out of the wallets of poor people in California in 2012, by charging them unnecessarily high fees
Robert Reich: The war on the poor and working class, in 2 min., 15 sec.
This is the best summary of the not-so-hidden agenda of the corporate class to weaken the tiny bit of power the working class still
Resurging interest in Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Movement
Biographer and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has written biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Baines Johnson. As she looked to a
Extending unemployment payments — a matter of fairness: Progressive Blog Digest
The Senate passes unemployment payments, Obama ramps up the pressure. What will the House Repubs do? See today’s full Progressive Blog Digest here.
The “Grand Unifying Theory” and the case for societal action
Before dawn on a wickedly cold and rainy Thursday morning, fast food workers in black hoodies and t-shirts gathered on a parking lot on
The pope, the president and the public schools
Sometimes progressives don’t agree with conservatives, and the gist of the differences are about policy issues. Other times, one or perhaps both sides of
Finding a voice for single-payer healthcare in an unlikely place–CNN
I must confess; I’m a semi-secret fan of the mainstream press. This is not because I admire its approach to the news. Rather, I