ALERT: Rally for Jobs
The clock is ticking on the 2012 Legislative session. Despite being in session for months, the Legislature has failed to act on real job creation projects like a large infrastructure bill and a Vikings stadium. These projects would create thousands of family sustaining, union jobs to help Minnesota’s economy recover. Let’s tell Legislators to act now and create jobs! RSVP Here
WHERE: State Capitol Steps (75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, St. Paul)
WHEN: Thursday, May 3, 11:00 AM
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Health Care
“The System Really is Not Failing – Failure IS the System” At a recent Association of Health Care Journalists meeting, Dr. Otis Brawley, Executive Vice President of the American Cancer Society, slammed everyone in the health care system for overuse of under-proven treatments.
Hospitals Sue Patients For Nominal Amounts Mount Carmel Health System in Ohio referred Lori Duff to a collections agency for an $1,800 bill related to prenatal services, even though her $25,000 annual income from managing an auto parts store likely made her eligible for charity care.
Labor
Retirement Slipping Farther and Farther Away Over the last decade and a half, Americans’ expected retirement age has slowly risen to 67 from 60, according to a new Gallup survey.
It’s The Inequality, Stupid A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244.
Nursing
Health Care Laws Leave Hospitals Overwhelmed by “Permanent Patients” When asked about Latasiewicz’s more than two year stay at the hospital he oversees, Carroll said, “That’s really a function of how our health care system is working right now, which is it’s not working very well at all, particularly in cases like this.”