Sunday, September 20, 2026

Tag: financial regulations

Banks raked in $6.4 Billion in overdraft fees in 2017. Where’s...

Think about this: the world's most bloated financial giants are growing even fatter and richer off the backs of people who are already broke.

Shifting US-Japan geo-politics, banking landscape and financial regulations in the Trump...

The dichotomy fueled by ongoing money conjuring policies can’t end well; it can only result in another crisis.

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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.