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Telecom Vendors Used End of Prison Visits During COVID to Profit Off Phone Calls

Just a few years ago, Securus was contractually requiring facilities to end or limit visits to force families to use their costly phone and video calling services. The corporation stopped this practice in response to public outrage, and…[Read more]

Activists Have Shut Down a Memphis-Area Pipeline — But Their Fight Isn’t Over

In step with the cancellation, Plains All American Pipeline has requested state and federal agencies to revoke necessary permits for the Byhalia Connection — what would have been a 49-mile route connecting a refinery in Memphis to an oil t…[Read more]

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-20/column-healthcare-insurance-unitedhealthcare

UnitedHealth Group, parent of UnitedHealthcare, the country’s largest private health insurer, earned $15.4 billion in profit last year. It took in more than $9 billion in profit during the first half of this year.

So what does a well-heeled insurer d…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/70610-the-many-faces-of-regime-change-in-cuba

Few dispute the validity of Cuban grievances. A long-suffering people often subject to capricious policies and arbitrary practices, an officialdom often appearing oblivious and unresponsive to the needs of a population confronting deepening hardship.…[Read more]

https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/rescue-story-17-years/

I was getting items from a storage unit after a romantic break-up, when up walks a kitten, meowing to grab my heart-strings (how she knew this would work I call a God-thing). I tried to ignore her, not being in a very good mood due to the break-up, but when I opened the truck…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/70602-short-term-fixes-arent-enough-to-solve-americas-looming-eviction-crisis

A national right to counsel would also give renters a fairer shot in the justice system. Most landlords in eviction cases are represented by counsel, but renters can rarely afford lawyers and often aren’t aware of their r…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/70607-rsn-whos-afraid-of-nina-turner

For the Democratic Party establishment, the specter of “Congresswoman Nina Turner” is alarming. The former national co-chair of the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign has a proven capacity to stir fervent energy on the left around the country. Her abi…[Read more]

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https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/70596-heres-how-texas-lawmakers-and-enron-shaped-the-states-electrical-market

Silverstein said Enron gamed the market, plain and simple. Enron used strategies like withholding energy trades, creating false scarcity and selling the same energy multiple times, she said.

“I have done my best to b…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/70595-toronto-cops-say-they-did-tremendous-job-after-beating-people-destroying-homeless-camp

Toronto police violently destroyed a homeless encampment in a city park, at times hitting and shoving protesters, pepper spraying them, and arresting 26 people.

Dozens of officers and security guards…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nkka/this-is-how-bad-uncontrolled-delta-spread-could-get-in-the-us

While data from Israel and the U.K. is mixed on how effective the mRNA vaccines are against preventing Delta infections, the vaccines appear to maintain a high level of protection against severe illness and disease resulting from the Delta…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/23/congress-should-ensure-better-medicare

A low out-of-pocket cap in Medicare would save lives and help millions of lower and middle-income people with Medicare who are skipping needed care.

A reasonable out-of-pocket cap would ensure that those over age-65 have meaningful access to three alternative…[Read more]