Tax on global mega-rich could help lift 2.3 billion out of poverty
A new analysis released Tuesday estimates that an annual wealth tax targeting the world’s millionaires and billionaires would raise enough revenue...
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Corporate sedition is more damaging to America than the Capitol attack
Capitalism and democracy are compatible only if democracy is in the driver’s seat. That’s why I took some comfort just...
How Joe Manchin betrayed America’s working families
Ed Barnette long ago realized that affordable child care and paid sick leave, among other resources, would be essential to...
Coal miners union urges Joe Manchin to support the protections BBB offers them
When Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and his allies defend his opposition to parts of President Joe Biden’s economic...
Grassroots energy projects are taking back power from utility companies
From solar power that cuts NYC energy bills and powers streetlights in Detroit to affordable high-speed internet throughout the United...
Thanks to the Infrastructure bill, the US will be replacing all lead water pipes
15 billion of federal money from the Infrastructure bill will go to funding a project that would replace all old...
A new report reveals a century-old American aristocracy
The United States was founded on the idea of freedom by right, not freedom by bloodline. But that has not...
Country’s largest coal miners union urges Manchin to support Biden’s Build Back Better agenda
The largest coal miners union in the United States is pushing back against Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) adamant opposition toward...
‘Give Workers a Fair Shake,’ Sanders Implores CEOs in Speech to Kellogg’s Strikers
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday addressed a Michigan rally of striking Kellogg’s union workers and their supporters, calling on all...
‘Acting Like Republicans’: Sanders Rips Manchin and Sinema for Betraying US Families
With Democrats’ Build Back Better package hanging in the balance, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Thursday called out fellow...
Elizabeth Warren To Elon Musk: The World’s Richest Freeloader Evidently Has Very Thin Skin
Senator Elizabeth Warren responds to Elon Musk calling her ‘Senator Karen’ on Twitter in response to her call for him...
‘Profits Above Workers’: Amazon Pounded Over Tornado Deaths At Warehouse
Amazon was accused Saturday of putting corporate profits above worker safety following the tornado-caused partial collapse of a St. Louis-area...
Majority of World’s Oil and Gas Workers Want to Seek Employment in Renewable Energy Industry
More than half of workers in the global oil and gas sector say they are interested in pursuing employment in...
Why Amazon is terrified of its U.S. workers unionizing
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just ruled that a historic union vote held earlier this year among Amazon...
Sinema targeted over ‘morally unforgivable’ tax loophole for the rich
A group of wealthy investors and business leaders who support progressive taxation launched a campaign Tuesday aimed at pushing Sen....
President Biden Raises Minimum Wage for All Federal Contract Workers to $15
Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Pramila Jayapal celebrated Monday’s announcement from the U.S. Labor Department that all federal contract...
Solar job numbers keep rising
The ongoing ravages of Covid-19 last year, and related solar power price inflation, failed to dent the photovoltaic industry’s ability...
How the media covers up for the Pentagon’s highway robbery
Intense debate over the Build Back Better (BBB) legislation has triggered stern lectures by fiscal conservatives about government spending. The...
Democrats To Make GOP Opposition To Infrastructure Bill Key Campaign Issue
Democrats are seeking to make roads and bridges a major campaign issue ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, highlighting local...
Exxon, Chevron, & Toyota Are The Largest Anti-Climate Lobbyists
There’s a good chance you have never heard of InfluenceMap. I hadn’t either until today, when I read about it...
These billionaires received taxpayer-funded stimulus checks during the pandemic
In March 2020, as the first wave of coronavirus infections all but shut down the U.S. economy, Congress responded with...
Bernie Sanders Is Showing the Democrats How to Take on Joe Manchin
For months, Bernie Sanders has been making a case for the multitrillion-dollar reform bill he’s spearheaded in the Senate. Now,...
Oil, Coal, & Gas Got $5.9 Trillion In Subsidies In 2020
Joe Manchin is perseverating about spending $3.5 trillion over 10 years for Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. “We can’t...
Voters really like Biden’s Build Back Better Act — and are happy to tax the rich for it
The $3.5 trillion dollar Build Back Better Act of 2021, in its current form, faces opposition in Congress not only...
Manchin has received $1.5 million from corporate interests attacking Biden agenda
Sen. Joe Manchin, one of a handful of Democratic lawmakers threatening to tank President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, has received...
Big pharma and drug lobbyists are ‘courting’ Kyrsten Sinema as the ‘lead blocker’ on pricing reform
It is no coincidence that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is often mentioned in the same sentence as Sen. Joe...
As Americans Demand Tax Reforms, Analysis Finds Top 1% Hold More Wealth Than Whole Middle Class
As the bombshell Pandora Papers continue to expose dubious details about how the world’s superrich hide their fortunes and avoid...
Manchin plan to gut Biden agenda would support 2 million fewer jobs per year
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s proposal to lop $2 trillion off his own party’s social spending and climate agenda would support...
Merck slammed for 4,000% markup of taxpayer-funded Covid drug
The New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant Merck is facing accusations of price gouging after it charged the U.S. over $700 per...
Cost of Build Back Better Proposal: Close To $0, Cost of Catastrophic Climate Change: $551 Trillion
Right now, as I’ve highlighted briefly before, there’s a hot negotiation underway between almost every other Democrat in the House...
Big Pharma greed ‘literally killing Americans,’ Sanders says outside drug lobby HQ
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and progressive healthcare campaigners from across the U.S. rallied at the headquarters of Big Pharma’s...
New report exposes corporate scheme to derail Biden agenda and ‘upend democracy’
Corporations threatened by the prospect of paying a slightly higher tax rate and exercising a little less power over working people...
Lying, Cheating Oil & Gas Companies Stick Taxpayers With Cleanup Bill
In our minds, we envision an oil well faithfully pumping oil for decades after it is drilled. In reality, the...
Congressional Progressives Call Out Pentagon Waste And Fraud
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that a new congressional watchdog report showing the Pentagon failing in efforts to combat department-wide...
‘Incredible’: Covid Stimulus Funds Reduced Overall US Poverty in 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing spike in unemployment, poverty in the U.S. declined by roughly 2.6% from 2019 to...
So-Called Democratic “Moderates” Are Actually Right-Wingers Who Have Always Thrown Up Roadblocks to Social Progress
The U.S. is the only liberal-democratic country in the world with a political system set up for two mainstream parties,...
‘Tax These Moochers’: Top 1% Dodge $163 Billion in Taxes Each Year
A Treasury Department report released Wednesday estimates that the richest 1% of Americans are responsible for more than $160 billion...
The $3.5 trillion bill that terrifies corporate America
Right now, Democrats are working to pass a $3.5 trillion package that will provide long overdue help for working Americans....
Manchin Pretends Exxon Does Not Lead Him Around By The Nose
Dana Bash proved surprisingly effective in making West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin sweat this morning, when throwing charges of being...
Extreme weather devastating US raises calls to pass Biden’s infrastructure bill
On August 30, 2021, President Joe Biden committed the federal government to help Louisiana and Mississippi recover from Hurricane Ida’s...
Economist Paul Krugman: Corporations refusing to pay taxes for climate change programs is ‘unforgivable’
While the United States’ west coast was battling wildfires on September 1, the Northeastern Corridor suffered tornadoes, torrential rainfall and...
The shame of the Sacklers — “Drug dealers in nice suits and dresses”
Today a federal judge is expected to certify Purdue Pharmaceutical’s bankruptcy plan – a $4.5 billion settlement between the company...
54 Members of Congress (All Democrats) Push for End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer this week, 54 members of Congress called for...
Senate Democrats fighting to tax billionaires and pass bill to invest in working families
The collective wealth of the top billionaires in the U.S. has increased by nearly two-thirds during the pandemic, not only...
CEO Pay Rose 1,322 Percent Over 42 Years, While Worker Pay Rose Only 18 Percent
A new analysis released Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute finds that CEO pay in the United States rose by...
Secret IRS files reveal how much the ultrawealthy gained by shaping Trump’s ‘big, beautiful tax cut’
In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen....
