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Bipartisan solutions arise for health

A shortage of healthcare workers has led to calls for a bipartisan solution despite a divided Congress

Salon

Armed with hashtags, these activists made insulin prices a presidential talking point

Hannah Crabtree got active on Twitter in 2016 to find more people like herself: those with Type 1 diabetes who’d hacked their insulin pumps to automatically adjust the amount of insulin delivered.

Tribune News Service

Afternoon Update: Mother’s harrowing robodebt testimony; paid blue ticks coming to Facebook and Instagram; and a Roman dildo found

Jennifer Miller tells inquiry she was stonewalled as she sought answers about the debt of her son, who took his own life

The Guardian - AU

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Bernie Sanders calls Nikki Haley’s demand for politicians over 75 to take mental competency tests ‘absurd’

Ms Haley has called for new generation of political leaders in Washington DC

The Independent UK

Morning Mail: Labor overruled Defence advice on patrol boats, fallout from flood disasters

The Australian government was warned against publicising problems with Pacific vessels; yes campaign for voice begins national week of action

The Guardian - AU

Bernie Sanders: Nikki Haley's call for competency tests is "absurd"

"Trust people, look at people and say this person is competent, not competent," Sanders said.

Axios

Bernie Sanders: Nikki Haley’s demand for mental tests is ageist and ‘absurd’

Senator makes remark to CBS’s Face the Nation after Republican presidential candidate calls for tests for politicians over 75

The Guardian - US

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Bernie Sanders: ‘Oligarchs run Russia. But guess what? They run the US as well’

The veteran senator is now part of Joe Biden’s inner circle, and is still fighting his country’s vast inequalities

The Guardian - UK

Bernie Sanders on going viral: ‘There I was with my mittens on the moon, at the Last Supper, on the Titanic’

In an extract from his new book It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, the US senator talks about the Capitol attack, Biden’s inauguration, and his sensible attire becoming a global sensation

The Guardian - UK

Gerontocracy: the exceptionally old political class that governs the US

Joe Biden and members of Congress are increasingly long in the tooth – and more and more out of step with a much younger US public

The Guardian - US

How big companies like Tesla and Starbucks are fending off unionization

The public is increasingly pro-labor, but big employers are not shy about aggressively fending off unionization.

Axios

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz declines to testify in Sanders' hearing

Starbucks declined to make interim CEO Howard Schultz available to testify before Congress next month, according to a letter sent by Starbucks' general counsel Zabrina Jenkins on Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

Moderna won’t raise price on COVID vaccine after pressure

Moderna said Wednesday it wouldn’t raise the price of its COVID-19 vaccine after a public outcry.

Tribune News Service

Starbucks' Schultz declines to appear before Senate panel

Starbucks’ interim CEO Howard Schutz has declined a request to appear before a Senate committee seeking to question him about the coffee chain’s response to an ongoing unionization campaign at the company’s U.S. stores

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Salon

Sanders bill: $60K teacher minimum wage

The average starting salary for teachers is less than $42,000. The bill would raise pay for 43% of teachers

Salon

Sanders: Tax rich, save Social Security

The proposal would ensure the program is fully funded through 2096

Los Angeles Times

Biden greets Brazil's Lula at the White House

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden welcomed the new leader of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to the White House Friday, with each man hoping for a boost from the other as they try to put their countries’ previous administrations behind them.

WEKU

Rail workers never stopped fighting for paid sick days. Now persistence is paying off

The freight railroad CSX announced this week it had made a deal to provide paid sick leave to roughly 5,000 rail workers. The White House and lawmakers are pushing other railroads to follow suit.

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Tribune News Service

Q&A: Why Bernie Sanders says his ‘Medicare for All’ dream must wait

After railing at the injustices of U.S. health care for decades, Sen. Bernie Sanders in January became the new chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee. The job gives the health care industry’s biggest Washington nemesis an unprecedented opportunity to shape health care reform in Congress. But…

Salon

Ohio derailment disaster "cover-up"

The "employers are the voice of the cover-up," says Transport Workers Union International President John Samuelsen

The Independent UK

In new role, Sanders demands answers from Starbucks' Schultz

As the new chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health and labor issues, Vermont Sen_ Bernie Sanders says some corporations “should be nervous.”

The Independent UK

Bernie Sanders commended as only lawmaker to wear a mask at the State of the Union: ‘A stud’

Mr Sanders praised for masking at the crowded, indoor event

The Independent UK

AOC and Sanders call McCarthy’s bluff on Social Security and Medicare cuts

The House speaker has said that the two entitlement programs are ‘off the table’ in debt limit negotiations

Salon

DNC won't ban super PACs in primaries

Right-wing "funds were often used by super PACs to run outrageous and dishonest attack ads," says Bernie Sanders

Tribune News Service

End of public health emergency causes cascade of changes

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s plan to unwind the public health emergency tied to the COVID-19 pandemic will spur a whirlwind of changes related to telehealth, Medicaid, pharmaceuticals and other priorities.

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