Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/12/progressive-lawmakers-demand-fraud-probe-medicare-privatization-scheme “We have long been concerned about ensuring this model does not give corporate profiteers yet another opportunity to take a chunk out of traditional Medicare,” wrote Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, and other lawmakers. JAKE JOHNSON … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): Did you know that there are over 2 million people incarcerated in the United States right now? Did you also know that, despite making up 13% of the total U.S. population, Black people … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Policies like the Child Tax Credit are a huge deal and families are tired of waiting, so we are sending ALL the ducks to Washington, DC instead – and we need you to back us up at … Continued
From the #ShutDownBerks Coalition (https://www.facebook.com/ShutDownBerksCoalition/): We demand that those women currently detained at the Berks County Residential Center be released and for the center to be repurposed into a space that can provide services to the surrounding community. No transfers … Continued
From Americans for Tax Fairness (https://americansfortaxfairness.org/): Our retirement tax system is broken. Each year, it showers hundreds of billions of dollars of tax breaks primarily on the richest and whitest households. But few of these incentives reach the households that … Continued
From the American Immigration Council (https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/): For months, governors have been spending millions of dollars to send migrants from border communities to New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Martha’s Vineyard. While these political stunts have backfired as communities have welcomed … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): On Latina Equal Pay Day, can you help us close the gender wage gap by sending a timely note to the U.S. Senate at https://action.momsrising.org/sign/PWFA_LEPD2022/? It’s long past time to close the wage gap: Studies show … Continued
From 350.org (https://350.org/): We need your help to call on U.S. leaders to phase out fossil fuels in solidarity with the demands of the Pacific nations, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Signing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty would be a critical step … Continued
From the Sentencing Project (http://www.sentencingproject.org): Incarcerating youth undermines public safety, concludes The Sentencing Project in a new report, “Why Youth Incarceration Fails: An Updated Review of the Evidence.” The report finds that confinement damages young people’s physical and mental health, … Continued
There’s a clear pattern forming in election after election: people support expanding public health insurance and lowering the cost of health care. After this past election, red state South Dakota voters passed medicaid expansion (the program red state governors have … Continued