Stressed-Out Nurses Say Nation’s Hospitals Need More of Them to Care for Patients

Reading Time: 7 minutes Could minimum staffing requirements improve outcomes for hospital patients, while easing the burden on nurses?

More Red States Mulling Green Light for Medicaid Expansion

Reading Time: 6 minutes Pandemic concerns — and ballot initiatives — are changing minds in holdout states.

Can Municipal Broadband Bridge the Digital Divide?

Reading Time: 6 minutes Fed up with overpriced, lousy, or nonexistent broadband service? There may be better choices than private telecom providers.

Could a Pandemic Spur the Resurgence of Labor Unions?

Reading Time: 6 minutes As the coronavirus threatens workers’ lives and livelihoods, unions are proving their worth.

Will the Coronavirus Undercut 2020 Progressive Insurgents?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed how progressive insurgents can score primary upsets: by connecting directly with voters and outworking their entrenched opponents. However, the coronavirus pandemic is making that much more difficult this year, so how do these challengers cope?

Coronavirus Meets a Woefully Unprepared World

Reading Time: 4 minutes Most countries don’t have the health infrastructure to contain pandemics like the coronavirus. That’s a problem for all of us.

Gig Workers’ Rights Fight Ensnares Creative Freelancers

Reading Time: 7 minutes Can the labor rights movement balance the needs of contract workers with those of genuine independent contractors?

Can Local Newspapers Make a Comeback?

Reading Time: 6 minutes In a tough environment for the news media, some local newspapers are seeking alternatives to the for-profit model.

The People v Wall Street: California’s Public Banking Shake-up

Reading Time: 5 minutes How a grassroots coalition beat the banking lobby in California — and how other states could be affected.

Social Insecurity: When Retirement Means Hardship, States Move to Fill the Void

Reading Time: 5 minutes States act to address the retirement-income gap through auto-IRAs and other state sponsored retirement programs.