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Author: Eric Gardner

What Happened to Boeing?

Headlines about Boeing's 737 Max 9 door plug blowout disaster have been all over the news. It's quickly becoming clear that there's a safety crisis…

Why Day Care Costs More Than College

Child care costs more than college in the United States. Parents can pay upwards of $20,000 per child per year — but most child care…

Grocery Prices Keep Rising. This Could Stop It.

If Kroger and Albertsons merge, they'd create the biggest supermarket chain in the country and your sky-high grocery bill will get even higher. We already…

Big Pharma’s 20-Year War On America

Big Pharma turned the U.S. into the world's most lucrative market by rigging the system. For 20 years they denied our government the ability to…

The Truth About Medicare Advantage

Corporations have turned Medicare Advantage into a money-making scheme, denying patients care to generate profits. For Megan Bent, it may have cost her father his…

Pharma Giants Launch Legal Blitz to Prevent Medicare Price Negotiations

The pharmaceutical industry launched a barrage of lawsuits to prevent the federal government from negotiating the price of prescription drugs for Medicare patients. Four companies,…

GM, Ford and Stellantis Generated a Staggering $31 Billion of Cash Last Year

In 2022, General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis (formally Chrysler) combined to generate around $31 billion of free cash flow, an increase of 91% from the…

How Johnson & Johnson is abusing bankruptcy court to protect shareholders

Johnson and Johnson reached a tentative $8.9 billion agreement to compensate tens of thousands of people who claim the company’s talcum-based products gave them cancer.…

How One Drug Could Break America’s Health Care System

In October of 2018, Eli Lilly was a mid-level pharmaceutical company, valued at not even half of Pfizer, but the company had a secret —…

Workers and Activists Force Dollar General to Address Workplace Safety Issues

Shareholders at Dollar General, America's fastest-growing retailer, voted to require the company to independently audit the working conditions at its stores. The results come just…

How CEOs Manipulate the Stock Market

You’ve heard the term stock buybacks everywhere this year. In the airline and railroad industry, the oil and gas industry, in entertainment, and in food…