Recent criminal-justice reform ended the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons. Now a group of lawmakers including Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) are pushing to limit solitary confinement in federal prisons more broadly. However, the realities of solitary confinement playing out in other correctional institutions across the country […]
My jail stopped using solitary confinement. Here’s why.
The Growing Cost Burden of Employer Health Insurance for U.S. Families and Implications for Their Health and Economic Security
Employer health insurance continues to be the primary source of insurance coverage for the majority of the U.S. population. More than half of U.S. residents under age 65 — about 158 million people — get their health insurance through an employer, either their own or a family member’s. Two recent studies by the Commonwealth Fund […]
How the Upper Middle Class Is Really Doing
Have upper-middle-class Americans been winners in the modern economy — or victims? That question has been the subject of a debate recently among economists, writers and others. On one side are people who argue that the bourgeois professional class — essentially, households with incomes in the low-to-mid six figures but without major wealth — is […]
Mental illness is more ubiquitous than cancer. How can we help the ‘missing middle’?
Federal elections can act as a launchpad or watershed for major health reform. However, despite mental ill-health being the most potent of all disease categories in its contribution to disability, impact on the economy and as a major cause of premature death, it is typically the bridesmaid at election time. Promises of funding always feature […]
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