NJ Nursing Home Shutdown: Profits vs. the Elderly

NJ Nursing Home Shutdown: Profits vs. the Elderly

On the Friday before Labor Day weekend, Princeton Care Center, a for-profit nursing home in Princeton, New Jersey, notified its 72 elderly residents that they were closing, and that the building would need to be vacated within 12 hours! For months, the owners of the...
Hurricane Ida Exposes Weaknesses of Societies Built for Profit

Hurricane Ida Exposes Weaknesses of Societies Built for Profit

From the wetlands in southern Louisiana to the major cities of the northeast, Hurricane Ida spent four days last week highlighting the tragic consequences that occur when societies built on profit encounter the effects of climate change, often spurred on by those same...
State Budgets Under Attack

State Budgets Under Attack

As New Jersey – like other states – sees billions in tax dollars disappear during the COVID-19 pandemic, we already hear talk of massive budget shortfalls! What do budget shortfalls mean? You guessed it: budget cuts for things ordinary people need. Obviously,...