There is a general sense that the health system is broken, 3 spurring interest in major reforms. The work to reform the US ...

As a nurse working for a nonprofit community hospital, Marcia had seen what medical debt can do. One of her patients, ...

In December 2025, the AFT asked members to tell us about how debt and financial stress affected their lives, and more than ...

Why should I trust you?” she asked. I was shocked and hurt and offended all at the same time. What had I done? I had recently ...

Unfortunately, I’m used to caring for patients who have ended up in critical condition because they can’t afford care for ...

To get a working-class tax cut, to pass living-wage legislation, to get limitless money out of politics, to fix the ...

And the longer I worked there, the more I needed healing too. George Rust, MD, MPH, is a professor at the Florida State ...

AFT President Randi Weingarten joined American Federation of Professional Educators of North Carolina President Joanna Loftis ...

For exemplifying what it means to be a great union member, a school bus assistant and AFT member in West Virginia has placed ...

Inside building 14 at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center—a wing dedicated to mental health and substance use—Nathan Hultstrom spends his shifts ensuring that he and his fellow peer recovery specialists ...

A recent controversy in the reading world is whether findings from reading research, sometimes referred to contemporaneously as the “science of reading,” apply to students who are not proficient in ...