Medicare Advantage insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms, under the guise of scientific rigor, to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for an older patient's treatment.
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Though Starbucks claims they are 'progressive,' there is mounting evidence that the company's anti-union efforts include a pattern of flagrant violations of federal labor law.
Unsurprisingly, book bans are increasingly orchestrated by fundamentalist groups like Moms for Liberty with a white Christian Nationalist spin.
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Each attempt to ban a book by conservative groups represents a direct attack on every person's constitutionally protected right to freely choose what books to read and what ideas to explore.
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