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2026
AFT Health Care, Fall 2026
Volume 7, no. 2
Where We Stand: Building Our Power to Fight for a Better Future
Randi Weingarten
Working for a Failing System
Three Members’ Stories of Medical Debt
The AFT’s Fight for Affordability: Resources to Reduce Your Debt
Tied Together in Sickness and in Debt
Barak D. Richman, Frederick F. Wherry
Wages, Inequality, and the Roots of America’s Affordability Crisis
Heidi Shierholz, Josh Bivens
A Trade Policy That Puts Working Families First
Lori Wallach
People Power and Advancing Rights, Justice, and Democracy in the AI Age
Nicole A. Ozer
Rural America May Be Ground Zero for Health System Reform
Jeanne M. Lambrew
Nurturing Trust and Equity in Patient Spaces
George Rust
The Need for Healing
George Rust
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