It is wrong to saddle our children with debt by allowing our long-term deficit to spiral out of control.
I think we are being penny-wise and pound-foolish by not spending now on early childhood.
In the healthcare reform bill, there is a $1.5 billion mandatory program over 10 years for home visiting...
It's time to change the rules of the road and place the consumers in the driver's seat.
It was clear to me, people in this horrible tragedy, that never should have happened, were working as well as they could...
I am pleased that the President has called for the creation of an independent panel along the lines of the Three Mile Is...
The American people first want to know how and when the disaster will end.
It seems like every time we want information that should be readily available to the public, we have to turn up the heat...
The budget for Indian school construction has been consistently cut since 2004, and this year is unfortunately no except...
The condition of BIA's schools is an unconscionable threat to the health and well being of children in Indian Country.
This is a recipe for disaster, and we must take action now.
Nurses' back injuries cost about $16 billion in worker compensation benefits each year, and another $10 billion in medic...
I cannot imagine waiting 16 years to see your family.
Most people do not know this, but the U.S. consistently takes more refugees than most industrialized countries combined.
I'm proud that Minnesota hospitals understand that worker safety is part and parcel of good patient care.
I'm happy to introduce Bettye Shogren, a specialist in occupational health and safety from the Minnesota Nurses Associat...
Workers would receive training on safe patient handling and injury prevention.
Unfortunately, Bettye is just one of many nurses who have lost their careers due to the lack of safe patient handling st...
