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 used tobacco industry messaging strategies to shift responsibility for climate change away from itself and onto consumers, despite its...
As the coronavirus pandemic upended the restaurant industry in March 2020, fast-casual burrito chain Chipotle instituted a 10% “appreciation pay”...
Pushing back on the right-wing narrative about the reason for real or perceived labor shortages in some markets nationwide, progressives...
“Things are still really bad for a lot of people in this country, which makes it especially jarring when you...
The Biden administration laid out its plan on Thursday to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030. The report seeks...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a slate of new efforts, including $15.5 million in new funding, to...
President Joe Biden has been highly critical of the corporate tax cuts of the Trump era, complaining that the Tax...
President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for workers under federal contracts...
Just 12 megadonors contributed roughly $1 in every 13 dollars spent on recent campaigns for federal office, as well as the...
A new report by the University of California at Berkeley makes several bold claims. First, it says all new cars and trucks...
Following IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig’s admission Tuesday that tax dodgers are depriving the federal government of as much as $1...
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced legislation Thursday that would eliminate dozens of tax loopholes, subsidies, and other...
The days since President Joe Biden introduced his infrastructure plan have seen an all-hands push from his economic team to convince the...
Conservative economist Michael R. Strain, director of economic policy for the American Enterprise Institute, has been critical of President Joe Biden’s...
Chuck Collins knows how rich people hide their money. Collins was an heir to the Oscar Mayer wiener fortune, an inheritance...
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Thursday called on major businesses and organizations that oppose Georgia Republicans’ new sweeping restrictions on...
Income and wealth are now more concentrated at the top than at any time over the last 80 years, and...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has dismissed more than 40 key science advisers appointed by former President Donald Trump, a move...
In public, Republicans have denounced Democrats’ ambitious electoral-reform bill, the For the People Act, as an unpopular partisan ploy. In...
The top 1% of the highest-earning American households are hiding 21% of their income from the Internal Revenue Service, costing...
Georgia activists are calling for a statewide boycott of Coca-Cola as part of an escalating effort to get major corporations to oppose...
A head of a subcommittee hearing on the “soaring” cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont),...
According to a new Brookings Institute study as reported by Reuters: The United States squandered both money and lives in its...
“Zoom saw its profits increase 4,000% last year,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich noted. “But, wait for it, paid no...
Images of emaciated polar bears and warnings about the dangers of a warming planet are all well and good but...
Workers at Solvay’s Pasadena, Texas, plant voted overwhelmingly to join the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2017 and looked forward to...
Bernie Sanders: I say to the Walton family of Walmart: the American people are sick and tired of subsidizing your...
President Biden cut child poverty in half with the American Rescue Plan, and he is following it up by making...
BESSEMER, Ala. ― The union election taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is exceptional in many ways. With...
America’s billionaires have made so much money they could fund two-thirds of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) with just...
The House of Representatives just passed their final version of the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion package aimed at ending the...
There’s a lot of denial and wishful thinking in the oil and auto fields these days, but on the other...
With the possibility of getting a more straightforward $15 federal minimum wage increase passed under the reconciliation process as part...
In Alabama — a deeply Republican state known for its anti-union right-to-work laws — Amazon employees are voting on whether...
Royal Dutch Shell vowed last September to reach net-zero carbon pollution in its business by 2050. The goal was vague...
The idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 from its current $7.25 is broadly popular, a Reuters/Ipsos...
Donald Trump’s taxes were officially handed over to the Manhattan D.A.’s office on Monday, just hours after the Supreme Court...
In the latest worker-led national day of action, low-wage fast food, restaurant, and grocery store workers held day-long strikes across...
Congressman Ro Khanna on Thursday unveiled legislation to help the Internal Revenue Service “put an end to runaway tax evasion...
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...
Record cold temperatures combined with widespread power outages have brought considerable misery to millions of Texas residents. But one person...
The Biden administration says it has begun reaching out to elected officials, Native American tribes and other stakeholders as part...
Now that a Democratic president, Joe Biden, is in the White House, Republicans have suddenly rediscovered fiscal conservatism and concern...
Time and again over the past few years, as he fought to protect his coworkers at Bobcat’s North Dakota plant,...
