Owners of midsize nursing home chains drain billions from facilities, hiding behind opaque accounting practices and harming the elderly as government, which has the power to stop it, falls short.
As the middlemen between drug companies and insurers, PBMs are shoo-ins as the villains behind high drug prices. But they do play a useful role in the health marketplace.
Ending production of the 1-cent coin will save the government money and could streamline big retailers’ operations. But it could also pinch small businesses and cash-reliant consumers.
To what extent has the line between playful community space and commercial spectacle been blurred?
One of Latin America’s smallest nations has a robust network of housing cooperatives, which give access to permanent, affordable housing to citizens at a range of income levels.
The notes in your pocket say they’re legal tender for all debts public and private. Are they lying?
How can an industry experiencing systemic failure get back on its feet?
Nationwide, state government money has become a smaller and smaller fraction of public higher education budgets.
Data-driven algorithms drive decision-making in ways that touch our economic, social and civic lives. But they contain inherent biases and assumptions that are too often invisible to the public.
There are never enough lawyers to provide indigent defense, but the situation has gotten worse since the pandemic.
