GM, Jobs, and Corporate America’s Incentive to Exploit On Monday morning, November 26, the auto giant General Motors announced plans to shut down production at five plants in the United States and Canada and shear off 15 percent of the company’s salaried jobs. The moves will cost 14,700 GM workers their livelihood. The communities where […]

Weekly Standard faces uncertain future after holding its ground against Trump “I don’t often talk about conservative news media but the Weekly Standard is a step above the other conservative news outlets” The owner of The Weekly Standard said Tuesday it’s “exploring a number of possibilities” for the conservative journal, leaving the future uncertain for […]

Silicon Valley’s racism problem is bigger than Facebook When former Facebook manager Mark Luckie published a Facebook post earlier this week asserting the social network has a “black people problem,” he rocked the public’s already shaky perception of Facebook. But as unfortunate as Luckie’s allegations are, racial bias in the tech industry is not isolated […]

Medicare Cuts Payments To Nursing Homes Whose Patients Keep Ending Up In Hospital The federal government has taken a new step to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions of nursing home patients by lowering a year’s worth of payments to nearly 11,000 nursing homes. It gave bonuses to nearly 4,000 others. These financial incentives, determined by each […]

How a ‘segregation tax’ is costing black American homeowners $156 billion “Homes owned by black Americans undervalued by $156 billion, says report” Black Americans, long accustomed to facing more hurdles on the road to homeownership, may consistently find their investments in residential property undervalued, according to a new joint Brookings Institution and Gallup study. According […]

Under Ben Carson, more families live in HUD housing that fails health and safety inspections A slow response by HUD, while not uncommon in government agencies, can have serious repercussions for the children, elderly and disabled who make up the majority of those living in taxpayer-subsidized housing. In one of Hartford’s poorest neighborhoods, a three-month […]

A Search For New Ways To Pay For Drugs That Cost A Mint Researchers expect that three dozen new drugs will come on the market over the next few years with astronomical prices — some likely topping a million dollars per patient. The drugmaker Novartis has told investors it might be able to charge $4 […]