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Susan R. Crandall

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I am privileged to serve as the Director of the Center for Social Policy and Clinical Professor of Public Policy at the McCormack Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts Boston. I am a senior leader with extensive experience across business and philanthropic sectors. I am passionate about fostering an interdisciplinary and inclusive approach to improve the quality of jobs and advancement opportunities for workers. I leverage my deep knowledge of and experience in workforce and economic policies to craft innovative research, design evaluations, and develop guidance for policymakers and practitioners. My work has been widely published and featured in national and local media. I am a frequent speaker at community and industry events. I tweet @WorkResults

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The US Capitol. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain)

Warren, Ocasio-Cortez introduce bill to ban corporate ownership of physician practices

The bill would let doctors sue corporate owners for treble damages and give the Federal Trade Commission a role in enforcing the ban.
An Allina Health hospital in Minneapolis. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0

Minnesota doctors strike for four days in a first for US hospitals

About 150 physicians at two Allina Health hospitals walked out this week after three years of bargaining over sick days, pay and a role in patient care.
A hospital emergency room entrance in Oregon. Photo: M.O. Stevens / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants lose Medicaid starting October 1

The federal reconciliation law also narrows Medicare and marketplace coverage, and a separate immigration rule is pushing US citizen children off Medicaid alongside their noncitizen family members.

Minnesota hospital doctors stage what union calls first private-sector physician strike in US history

Doctors at two Minneapolis-area hospitals say they're striking over artificial intelligence in patient care, not just pay.
Farmworkers harvest sweet potatoes. Photo: USDA, public domain

Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful

The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.