In December 2025, the AFT asked members to tell us about how debt and financial stress affected their lives, and more than ...
There is a general sense that the health system is broken, 3 spurring interest in major reforms. The work to reform the US ...
To get a working-class tax cut, to pass living-wage legislation, to get limitless money out of politics, to fix the ...
As a nurse working for a nonprofit community hospital, Marcia had seen what medical debt can do. One of her patients, ...
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: ...
ASHEVILLE, N.C.—AFT President Randi Weingarten joined American Federation of Professional Educators of North Carolina President Joanna Loftis and Read to Succeed Asheville/Buncombe co-Executive ...
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 ...
Stand up, fight back: ‘We threw salt in their cuts and lemon in their eyes’ ...
WASHINGTON—Leaders from industry, labor, education and philanthropy today launched the Compact for America's Youth, a challenge to public and private sector leaders to open real paths from school into ...