Senate Hearing: At Long Last, Audit The Pentagon
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday presided over a Senate Budget Committee hearing convened to examine waste and fraud at the...
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Big Pharma’s plot to derail US COVID vaccine waiver revealed
While global health advocates applauded the Biden administration’s recent decision to support waiving intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines as “critical,” “transformative,” and “unquestionably the right...
ExxonMobil Worked To Shift Climate Blame
ExxonMobil used tobacco industry messaging strategies to shift responsibility for climate change away from itself and onto consumers, despite its...
As Workers Struggled, Boardrooms Found Ways To Reward CEOs During Pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic upended the restaurant industry in March 2020, fast-casual burrito chain Chipotle instituted a 10% “appreciation pay”...
Pay a Living Wage or ‘Flip Your Own Damn Burgers’: Progressives Blast Right-Wing Narrative on Jobs
Pushing back on the right-wing narrative about the reason for real or perceived labor shortages in some markets nationwide, progressives...
Jeff Bezos buys superyacht as Americans sink into poverty
“Things are still really bad for a lot of people in this country, which makes it especially jarring when you...
Administration Releases “America The Beautiful” Conservation Plan
The Biden administration laid out its plan on Thursday to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030. The report seeks...
U.S. Department Of Energy Spurs Solar Deployment In Underserved Communities
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a slate of new efforts, including $15.5 million in new funding, to...
Joe Biden’s plans would target the ultra-wealthy for more tax dollars — and they’re getting nervous
President Joe Biden has been highly critical of the corporate tax cuts of the Trump era, complaining that the Tax...
Biden Order Will Raise Minimum Wage for Federal Contract Workers to $15 an Hour
President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for workers under federal contracts...
Here’s how rich mega-doners hacked US politics
Just 12 megadonors contributed roughly $1 in every 13 dollars spent on recent campaigns for federal office, as well as the...
Report Says Electric Cars Will Save Americans $2.7 Trillion, Create 2 Million Jobs
A new report by the University of California at Berkeley makes several bold claims. First, it says all new cars and trucks...
Congresswoman Jayapal Calls for Crackdown on Wealthiest After IRS Chief Says Tax Evasion Costs US $1 Trillion a Year
Following IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig’s admission Tuesday that tax dodgers are depriving the federal government of as much as $1...
Sanders, Omar Unveil Bill to End ‘Absurd Corporate Handouts’ to Fossil Fuel Industry
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced legislation Thursday that would eliminate dozens of tax loopholes, subsidies, and other...
Corporate taxes can’t stay low while America crumbles
The days since President Joe Biden introduced his infrastructure plan have seen an all-hands push from his economic team to convince the...
Conservatives attack Biden’s economic agenda as ‘socialism’ — as they did with FDR and LBJ
Conservative economist Michael R. Strain, director of economic policy for the American Enterprise Institute, has been critical of President Joe Biden’s...
How The Rich Hide Their Wealth — And How To Stop Them
Chuck Collins knows how rich people hide their money. Collins was an heir to the Oscar Mayer wiener fortune, an inheritance...
Ossoff Urges Businesses To Stop Donating To GA GOP Over Voting Restrictions
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Thursday called on major businesses and organizations that oppose Georgia Republicans’ new sweeping restrictions on...
What would happen if we actually taxed the rich?
Income and wealth are now more concentrated at the top than at any time over the last 80 years, and...
Biden Administration Takes Out The Trump Trash By Getting Rid Of 40 Trump EPA Appointees
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has dismissed more than 40 key science advisers appointed by former President Donald Trump, a move...
Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century
In public, Republicans have denounced Democrats’ ambitious electoral-reform bill, the For the People Act, as an unpopular partisan ploy. In...
America’s Richest 1% Dodge Taxes On More Than A Fifth Of Their Income, Study Finds
The top 1% of the highest-earning American households are hiding 21% of their income from the Internal Revenue Service, costing...
Georgia activists call for Coca-Cola boycott over ‘deafening silence’ on voting rights
Georgia activists are calling for a statewide boycott of Coca-Cola as part of an escalating effort to get major corporations to oppose...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bills to Lower Prescription Drug Costs
A head of a subcommittee hearing on the “soaring” cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont),...
Study Finds Trump And GOP Killed Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans With Botched Pandemic Response
According to a new Brookings Institute study as reported by Reuters: The United States squandered both money and lives in its...
Robert Reich: Zoom paying no taxes while getting rich is proof ‘the system is rigged’
“Zoom saw its profits increase 4,000% last year,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich noted. “But, wait for it, paid no...
Big Oil’s Lies About Pollution Health Risks Contributed To Millions Of Deaths
Images of emaciated polar bears and warnings about the dangers of a warming planet are all well and good but...
How employers punish workers for forming unions
Workers at Solvay’s Pasadena, Texas, plant voted overwhelmingly to join the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2017 and looked forward to...
Faces of Greed: The Walton Family of Walmart
Bernie Sanders: I say to the Walton family of Walmart: the American people are sick and tired of subsidizing your...
Biden To Raise Taxes On The Rich After Cutting Child Poverty In Half
President Biden cut child poverty in half with the American Rescue Plan, and he is following it up by making...
The Amazon Union Election Is Unusual. Amazon’s Robust Anti-Union Campaign Isn’t.
BESSEMER, Ala. ― The union election taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is exceptional in many ways. With...
Wealth Gained by Billionaires Amid COVID Could Pay for Two-Thirds of Relief Bill
America’s billionaires have made so much money they could fund two-thirds of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) with just...
Right Wing Attacks On COVID-19 Relief Flop
The House of Representatives just passed their final version of the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion package aimed at ending the...
Morgan Stanley: The Oil Industry Is About To Become Worthless
There’s a lot of denial and wishful thinking in the oil and auto fields these days, but on the other...
Sen. Bernie Sanders Says Taxpayers Should No Longer Subsidize Walmart’s Starvation Wages
With the possibility of getting a more straightforward $15 federal minimum wage increase passed under the reconciliation process as part...
President Joe Biden offers support to Amazon workers in a pro-union video
In Alabama — a deeply Republican state known for its anti-union right-to-work laws — Amazon employees are voting on whether...
Despite Its Pledges, Shell Funded Anti-Climate Lobbying Last Year
Royal Dutch Shell vowed last September to reach net-zero carbon pollution in its business by 2050. The goal was vague...
Nearly 60% of Americans Support A $15/Hour Minimum Living Wage
The idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 from its current $7.25 is broadly popular, a Reuters/Ipsos...
Manhattan DA Cy Vance Has Trump’s Taxes
Donald Trump’s taxes were officially handed over to the Manhattan D.A.’s office on Monday, just hours after the Supreme Court...
Workers find power in Fight for $15 movement
In the latest worker-led national day of action, low-wage fast food, restaurant, and grocery store workers held day-long strikes across...
Legislative Proposal to End ‘Runaway Tax Evasion’ by US Millionaires and Billionaires
Congressman Ro Khanna on Thursday unveiled legislation to help the Internal Revenue Service “put an end to runaway tax evasion...
AOC raised $1 million for the people of Texas while Ted Cruz was jetting-off to Cancun
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz and right wing extremists Erick Erickson, Dinesh D’Souza, Ben Shapiro, and Donald Trump, Jr., all thought there was nothing...
Dallas billionaire natural gas producer watches profits soar as Texans freeze
Record cold temperatures combined with widespread power outages have brought considerable misery to millions of Texas residents. But one person...
Biden Administration Reviews Trump’s Assaults on America’s Natural Treasures
The Biden administration says it has begun reaching out to elected officials, Native American tribes and other stakeholders as part...
Trump’s Sec. of State Mike Pompeo spent over $10,000 in taxpayer funds on engraved pens
Now that a Democratic president, Joe Biden, is in the White House, Republicans have suddenly rediscovered fiscal conservatism and concern...
