“Two steps forward, one step back”

The successes and missed opportunities of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds The Covid-19 pandemic was a profoundly uneven tragedy. Low-income communities of color suffered from sharply higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and death compared with White and higher-income populations. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) took direct aim at these disparities. Enacted in 2021 as a nearly $2 trillion … Read More

Profit and power in the U.S. dialysis system: The unhealthy truth

Exposing the profit-driven sickness in American health care  December 2025 Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy Senior Fellow Tom Mueller is an investigative journalist focused on uncovering fraud, corruption, and graft. His first book, Extra Virginity, examined malfeasance in the olive oil industry. His second, Crisis of Conscience, tackled the corporate corruption fueling whistleblowers. In his latest, How to … Read More