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    LZ Granderson: US policy basically discourages having kids. Now our economy is paying the price

    by LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times Oct 17, 2023 3 minutes
    Kaiser employees rally outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Oct. 4, the first day of the strike.

    The largest health care strike in U.S. history was called off Thursday as Kaiser Permanente and unions representing 75,000 workers finally reached a tentative agreement. This after a planned three-day work stoppage by the unions gave their employer a preview of what would have been ahead if an impasse continued. Kaiser clearly wasn't interested in seeing more.

    It's good news for America's workers, who were quick to feel the pinch from record-high inflation but slow to reap the benefits of the record profits of at least 1,000 employees across the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There's a theme here, as workers have been squeezed too hard for too long — as if the corporate brain trust thought "The Hunger Games" were a how-to manual.

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