Lee Hudson Teslik

For the nation’s nursing homes, the first three years of the 2020s have presented one peril after another. From facing down the COVID-19 pandemic on the front-lines, to navigating a sweeping staffing crisis, simply doing business has proven physically, operationally and financially complex. Against this backdrop, the recently proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services staffing mandate feels, to many industry leaders, like insult after injury.

Expert opinion varies wildly on the relevance of U.S. war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan to the health of the U.S. economy. At the most basic level, economists disagree whether these wars will have a positive or negative long-term economic impact.

The 2008 U.S. presidential elections have brought new attention to the debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, the free trade bloc uniting Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Currently, the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. governments all broadly support NAFTA, but the leading U.S. Democratic presidential candidates, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) and Barack Obama (IL), say they want to renegotiate aspects of the deal.