In December 2025, the AFT asked members to tell us about how debt and financial stress affected their lives, and more than ...

In the United States, there are now 1,000 billionaires—and the world’s first trillionaire—at a time when nearly half of American households—46 percent—don’t earn enough to make ends meet. This wealth ...

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Trump administration released new regulations for its unpopular national private school voucher scheme: ...

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There is a general sense that the health system is broken, 3 spurring interest in major reforms. The work to reform the US ...

Why should I trust you?” she asked. I was shocked and hurt and offended all at the same time. What had I done? I had recently ...

And the longer I worked there, the more I needed healing too. George Rust, MD, MPH, is a professor at the Florida State ...

You may not know what “surveillance capitalism” is—but when you use most internet websites or smartphone applications, you are caught in its web. Information about who you are, where you go, and what ...

As a nurse working for a nonprofit community hospital, Marcia had seen what medical debt can do. One of her patients, ...