Money Over People

A new report reveals how stock buybacks have inflated CEO paychecks and widened pay gaps at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.

Nobody in America should be without a home, and for society to work, housing costs must track incomes in a way that makes housing both available and affordable.

Universal healthcare is not that complicated. But the people who promote its perceived complexity are the same ones who are creating that complexity—for their own benefit.

For decades, politicians promised to give Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices. President Biden is finally making it happen. This is the biggest defeat Big Pharma has ever suffered—and it won’t be the last.

Scores of drugs, many with limited benefit, cost more than $50,000 a year. Some drugs, mostly used to treat rare diseases, cost over $700,000 annually—in the United States.

Another healthcare con job: A powerful lobbyist convinced a federal agency that doctors can be forced to pay fees on money that health insurers owe them.

The world that President Eisenhower warned us about has materialized. The arms industry has too many members of Congress in its pockets.

Slavery was a form of mass commerce. It made select white families so wealthy and powerful that their surnames still form a sort of social aristocracy in places like Charleston.

A Senate committee chaired by Bernie Sanders released a report revealing how Big Pharma is "ripping off" Americans with medical treatments that publicly funded experts helped create.

Fox News brought on a contributor with a history of downplaying the dangers of secondhand smoke and dismissing climate science to tell viewers that particulate matter is "innocuous."

Documents reveal clear evidence that the chemical industry knew about the dangers of PFAS and failed to let the public, regulators, and even their own employees know the risks.

The CDC calls the 644 mostly Southern counties where rates of the disease are high the “Diabetes Belt.” And of those counties, more than half have high levels of medical debt.

American families are paying far too much for prescription drugs, in large part due to Big Pharma's rampant corporate lawlessness.

Beers family members built a “conglomerate” by selling a Christian alternative to traditional health insurance. They’re now scrambling for cash, even though they received millions in PPP loans that were later forgiven.

PBMs—called by some the Pharma Benefits Mafia—are at the center of the circle of pointing fingers, each one blaming the next for sky-high drug prices. And reaping huge profits at patient expense in the meantime.

Americans are being left food insecure and have to skip meals while corporations and their wealthy shareholders enjoy the spoils of supersized profits under unjustified price hikes.