Tag: Bernie Sanders
Steward Health Care announces closure of 2 Mass. hospitals
BOSTON (AP) – Steward Health Care announced Friday that it is closing two hospitals in Massachusetts because it received no qualified bids for the...
Lawmakers seek health care, retirement protections for Steward Health Care workers
BOSTON (AP) – A group of Democratic members of Congress, led by Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, is seeking reassurances that workers at hospitals owned by...
Ranked-choice voting advocates empowered after CD1 primary results
Calls for voting reform grew to a roar in the days heading into Rhode Island’s competitive and crowded Democratic congressional primary.
Now on the other...
Voters head to the polls for 1st Congressional District primary
Rhode Island voters are casting their ballots Tuesday in a primary contest to winnow down a field of candidates vying for the U.S. House...
32-hour workweek law? Not much support in R.I.
In an effort to find and retain workers in a tight job market, some companies have toyed with the idea of converting to a...
As court debates student loans, borrowers see disconnect
WASHINGTON (AP) – Niara Thompson couldn't shake her frustration as the Supreme Court debated President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation. As she listened from...
Democrats open a new kind of convention
ATLANTA (AP) — The Democratic Party will convene, sort of, amid a pandemic that has upended the usual pomp-and-circumstance of presidential nominating conventions.
Democratic National...
Buttigieg outpacing candidates in R.I. fundraising
PROVIDENCE – The presidential hopeful that has raised the most in Rhode Island as of Nov. 30 is South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg,...
Tax the wealthy and their charities will suffer
America’s corporate economy has long been divided between a taxed, for-profit sector and a non-taxed, not-for-profit sector. This division has significant implications for tax...
Sanders unveils plan to ‘democratize’ corporations and financial markets
PROVIDENCE – Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., last week unveiled proposals to “democratize” corporations and financial markets, a move applauded by...
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