The Sinking Lifeboat: Uncontrolled Immigration and the U.S. Healthcare System
America’s health care system is in crisis: Costs and insurance premiums are skyrocketing, the number of the uninsured is rising rapidly, providers are reducing staffing and services and increasing rates, and hospitals are closing or facing bankruptcy. Read the report here. Today at 4pm, John & Ken will talk to Ira Mehlman, spokesperson for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

Tentative Deal Reached To End Grocery Strike
LOS ANGELES —Negotiators for three supermarket chains and grocery clerks reached a tentative contract agreement Thursday, creating hope that the longest supermarket strike in U.S. history would end and send 70,000 financially strapped employees back to work. Read the story here.

4% of U.S. Priests Since 1950 May Have Abused
WASHINGTON — In an extensive nationwide accounting of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, a committee of U.S. bishops will report today that 4,392 priests — 4% of all clerics — had allegedly abused as many as 10,000 minors since 1950. Read the story here. Read the full report here.