US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Drug in the Last Decade
Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers footed the bill for every new drug approved from 2010 to 2019
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Preserve the People’s Post Office: Let Us Do Meaningful Postal Reform
A rallying cry for the Post Office.
Read more...World Bank’s ‘Mobilizing Finance for Development’ Not Financing Development
The World Bank is trying to rebrand a failed public private partnership scheme as “blended finance”. Developing countries, beware.
Read more...UK Government Accused of New “U-Turn” on Local Covid Contact Tracing with Outsourcing Giants Serco and Sitel
“Local councils should be doing the whole lot, not just the mopping up. Serco and Sitel are cherry picking and doing the easy bits and leaving the difficult stuff to local authorities.”
Read more...House Democrats Introduce Urgent Bill to End ‘Deliberate Sabotage’ of Postal Service by Postmaster General
Democrats wake up awfully late in the game to the importance of protecting the Post Office from looting, um, privatizing. Are they too late?
Read more...Preserve Our Post Office, Before It’s Too Late
It ought to be stunning that the Post Office needs to be defended….
Read more...The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools
How consultant-grifters profit while watering down police reform and undermining accountabilty to local communities.
Read more...Financialization: Tackling the Other Virus
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to tackle another virus that has spread throughout the world since the 1970s: financialization.
Read more...Education 101: Don’t Open a New Charter School in the Middle of a Pandemic
A hard look at charter school misleading ads, racial segregation, and dodgy economics.
Read more...Some Communities Are Being Forced to Fight School Closures and Privatization in the Midst of the Pandemic
Citizens opposing a school restructuring plan in Minneapolis remind local officials: “The educational system actually belongs to us.”
Read more...Will the United States Post Office Become a Victim of #COVID19?
Is there space for a deal in the next bailout bill for saving the Post Office?
Read more...What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know About Hospital Emergency Rooms
A coronavirus whistleblower winds up also exposing that private equity has too much say in running emergency rooms.
Read more...Why the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Weaken the School Privatization Agenda
Coronavirus-generated suspensions of testing throws a monkey wrench into the charter school agenda.
Read more...A New Type of Conflict: France’s Ongoing Struggle for Pensions
The French strike over pensions has gone on longer than any other, even in 1968, has 60% support….yet the press barely covers it.
Read more...The “Fixing Capitalism” Headfake
Why most plans to create a kinder, gentler capitalism fall way short.
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