Single payer actually results in few employer plan removals.

The 401k program is primarily a tax shelter for rich people.

Higher wages and better benefits are needed to counteract rent hikes.

A modest UBI would keep many out of exploitive financial traps.

Full-time work holds down poverty, not the "success sequence."

How to use payroll taxes to prevent an unjust employer windfall.

Most economic reforms are deep down about reallocating labor.

Streamlining the health care bureaucracy would not be that painful.

Poor adults tend to spend more weeks disabled, studying, and caring.

Lots of coverage, low cost-sharing, and steeply progressive taxes.

Health insurance remains elusive for young and poor people.

Capitalism drives poverty and only the welfare state can fix that.

Ideas for transitioning from our current system to single payer.

Most Dutch oppose their complicated, costly, market-driven healthcare system.

If we want to stop taking insurance away from people, we need single-payer healthcare.

We have no papers yet, but they are in the pipeline, and they will be good.

The welfare state should be a permanent foundation, not a temporary safety net.

The Nordic countries have amazing welfare states and also immense state ownership.

This "common sense" approach to poverty is just a culture war grievance.