Holy shit! In the USA the poorer you are the less they pay you. Why isn’t this illegal?

“A January 2025 report from Groundwork Collective documents how increasingly nurses in the USA are hired through gig apps – "Uber for nurses” – so nurses never know from one day to the next whether they're going to work, or how much they'll get paid.
There's something high-tech going on here with those nurses' wages. These nursing apps – a cartel of three companies, Shiftkey, Shiftmed and Carerev – can play all kinds of games with labor pricing.

“Before Shiftkey offers a nurse a shift, it purchases that worker's credit history from a data-broker. Specifically, it pays to find out how much credit-card debt the nurse is carrying, and whether it is overdue.

“The more desperate the nurse's financial straits are, the lower the wage on offer. Because the more desperate you are, the less you'll accept to come and do the gruntwork of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying.”

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"In healthcare, the DSA endorsed the profit-driven policy of “herd immunity” as far back as 2020, originally promoted by the first Trump administration and the extreme right and which became state policy under the Biden administration. Jacobin has also favorably interviewed signatories of the pro-mass death Great Barrington Declaration in late 2020 and called for the reopening of schools, knowing they were significant vectors for the virus.

The organization has therefore been in political solidarity with policies which have produced the conditions which nurses face, including the near collapse of the healthcare system."

How the Democratic Socialists of America enforces unsafe staffing levels in Oregon hospitals
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/17/nxbx-f17.html

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220 Nursing Professionals Trained in Infection Control.

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