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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Trump administration released new regulations for its unpopular national private school voucher scheme: ...

WHEREAS, the rapid integration of artificial intelligence, including large language models, algorithmic tools, and related technologies is transforming healthcare delivery and the professional ...

WHEREAS, timely access to safe, perinatal care and high-quality labor and delivery services is essential to protecting the health and lives of pregnant people and newborns; and WHEREAS, healthcare ...

Medicaid funding is crucial to AFT members and the communities we serve. Access to healthcare is key for seeking and maintaining a job, but Congress is moving to cut Medicaid funding by hundreds of ...

In this special issue of AFT Health Care, several economists and researchers answer a fundamental question: Why is it so hard to make ends meet? While the full story is complex, there are two simple ...