On Sept. 27, the AFT’s Higher Education division hosted a screening and panel discussion with creators of and participants in ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Trump administration’s new higher education ...