Walmart spent $8.1 billion on stock buybacks last year.
Over 156,000 Walmart workers are on Medicaid because they don't get healthcare from the company.
A new study shows that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and over $1 trillion every year.
The new research out of Yale shows that reductions in administrative overhead, lower pharmaceutical prices, less fraudulent billing, and fewer emergency care trips would lead to massive savings nationwide.
More accessible care would also lead to numerous lives saved.
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Great news! But we have to speed up this 7+ hour train ride between Pittsburgh and Philly.
My All Aboard Act and the American High-Speed Rail Act would invest billions into making routes like this one ready for high speed rail.
Congress should act and make American trains the envy of the world. 🇺🇸 🚄
18 months. $5 trillion fucking dollars in 18 months. And we still don't have healthcare. And they gutted education. And food assistance. And food safety, and clean air, and clean water. And cut 300k federal jobs. Where the actual fuck is that new spending actually going?
Corporations spent $1 trillion this year in stock buybacks, shattering records. Meanwhile, they claim they can’t afford to pay you real wages. Buybacks were illegal for a generation for a reason. They funnel money further upward and away from workers.
Apple could have given workers $4 million each over the last 8 years.
Alphabet: $1.8 million.
Microsoft workers: $775,000 each.
Bank of America: $672,000 each.
They chose buybacks. You got cuts.
Nothing trickles down.
BREAKING: the clock struck midnight and our bipartisan housing bill is now law.
Trump refused to sign it, but he couldn't stop it.
This law is GROUNDBREAKING.
It will build more housing, bring down costs, and for the first time, stop private equity from buying up homes.
I know we live in a heavily car-dependent country, but framing the ability to eat rest-stop food in your car as a defining national triumph is incredibly bleak.
This playoff run should do more for KAT’s legacy than just about any player in the last 10+ years. Easily the best and most mature ball of his career at the best possible time.
We don't need leaders to go after people relying on SNAP benefits.
We need leaders who go after the billionaires paying people so little they need SNAP.
Workers are now taking home the smallest percent of America's economic output since records began in 1947.
At the same time corporate profits are now at the highest point since 1950.
Play-in losers have as much of a chance at securing the first overall pick as the team with the worst record in the league.
That is simply asinine to even fathom.