STRIKE DEAL STRIKES OUT

by Chuck Campbell

Is public transportation necessary? For many people, with or without disabilities, the need is obvious. “I can’t drive because of my disability. Public transportation is all I got,” the Pioneer Press’ Hank Shaw quoted Courage Center resident Zach Johnson. Shaw’s article also quoted John Tschida, of Courage Center, saying he knows one nursing assistant who now spends $40 a day on cab fare. Darlene Scott of Phoenix Residence says about half of their employees take the bus to work, and some are now missing shifts as a result of the strike. . . . .

COULD UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE WORK?

by Jeff Nygaard

The United States spends more than 14 percent of its gross national product on healthcare, more than any other in the developed world.  Yet the U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not guarantee health insurance to all of its citizens.  The current presidential campaign has seen several proposals put forward to address this national scandal, ranging from expansion of existing public programs to tax incentives to entice more employers to provide insurance to their workers, to privatization of the Medicare program. . . .

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