One big way to reduce poverty - expand Medicare to everyone, no cuts to Social Security or Medicare
With poverty rates spinning perilously out of control in the U.S., it’s time to send an unmistakable message to Congress and the White House as they prepare to resume the ongoing obsession with the deficit: End the silence on poverty, don’t make poverty worse through cuts to Social Security or Medicare, and address a principle cause of poverty with a permanent fix to our dysfunctional healthcare system.
NNU Blog
The troubling state of America’s health
America is dangerous to your health. A recent international commission reported that U.S. men rank last in life expectancy for the 17 industrial nations in the study; U.S. women rank next to last. When it comes to health, the United States is exceptional — exceptionally bad.
The Washington Post
More Powerful than Prison Guards: The Woman Who Knows What Nurses Need
Columnist Colleen O'Connor explains why Rose Ann DeMoro, the director of the nurses union, is more powerful than any woman in California but the governor's wife. A month into the new year and it is obvious who the 2013 Person of the Year in California will be: Rose Ann DeMoro.
PowayPatch.com
Union Members Recommit to Winning Improved and Expanded Medicare for All
Chicago, IL – More than two hundred union leaders and activists gathered in Chicago for the Labor Campaign's fourth national conference to strategize about next steps for labor in the movement to win universal health care. With government officials from both major parties contemplating cuts in Medicare as part of a "grand bargain," delegates resolved to stand up to any cuts in this cornerstone social insurance program.
Labor Campaign for Single Payer Health Care
Brockton Enterprise Continues Coverage of MNA Efforts to Improve Staffing at DMH's Brockton Multiser
BROCKTON -- Nurses union leaders are hopeful they will see changes at the Brockton Multi-Service Center after sitting down with the state’s mental health commissioner.
EnterpriseNews.com
The Two Americas
There are more billionaires than ever, while children and seniors go hungry and record numbers of families struggle in poverty. Nurses can help by passing the Robin Hood Tax.
NNU Blog
NNU Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro to speak on health and poverty televised panel in DC
Be sure to watch RoseAnn DeMoro, National Nurses United’s executive director, talk Thursday about how bedside nurses are witnessing the devastating harm the economy has on patients and their communities.
NNU Blog
Nurses rally in Thief River Falls; hospital staffing at issue
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. — A group of northern Minnesota nurses will rally in Thief River Falls on Friday in support of a legislative proposal that would set minimum staffing levels at hospitals across the state.
Minnesota Public Radio
Americans 'are sicker and die younger' than people in other wealthy nations
America may be one of the richest countries in the world, but its people are less healthy and more likely to die early from disease or accidents than those in any other affluent country, a damning official US report has found
The Guardian
Surging flu no reason for vaccine mandate
When you decide not to get a flu shot, the risk is that you or someone near you will get sick. But for health care workers, the price is increasingly a pink slip. Hundreds have already been fired.
USA Today