El País (12.03.2017) Los republicanos, atrapados por su retórica, se enfrentan ahora a la ira de sus votantes. California, el mercado más grande de Estados Unidos, alerta de una “espiral mortal” si se destruye el sistema de Obama
Les Echos (30.03.2017) Aux Etats-Unis, l'introduction d'un robot pour 1.000 salariés détruit 5 à 6 emplois, selon une étude de chercheurs du MIT et de la Boston University. Voilà une étude qui va apporter de l'eau au moulin à ceux qui s'interrogent sur l'impact de la robotisation sur l'emploi.
The Mercury News (03.04.2017) Maria Consuelo believes she’s alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents.
EuroNews (24.03.2017) Les dépenses de santé aux Etats-Unis sont estimées à 20 % du PIB pour 2017, un record mondial qui se chiffre à 3,5 trillions de dollars. Moins de la moitié de ces dépenses sont financées par le gouvernement américain. (A titre de comparaison, selon l’OCDE, au sein de l’Union européenne, les pays membres prennent en charge environ 72 % des dépenses de santé.)
NPR (13.07.2016) More than 4 in 10 working Americans say their job affects their overall health, with stress being cited most often as having a negative impact.
cnbc.com (20.07.2016) Why Medicaid enrollment has spiked to over 72 million since Obamacare
Bloomberg (12.07.216) Social Security was meant to protect elderly Americans from the financial vicissitudes of growing old. Eighty years later, the safety net championed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt is protecting some younger people, too.
Bloomberg (06.07.2016) The Affordable Care Act was meant to have a particular impact on smokers when it was enacted: It would shift the burden of high health-care costs from smoking ailments to the smokers themselves—17 percent of American adults in 2014. At the same time, the ACA would keep making progress toward the goal of universal health care, even for smokers.
New York Times (22.06-2016) The Obama administration said Wednesday that the financial outlook for Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund had deteriorated slightly in the last year and that Social Security still faced serious long-term financial problems.
CNN (21.06.2016) Good news for anyone looking to start a family: Paid parental leave for fathers is no longer a unicorn.
