The 83-year-old founder of the outdoor-themed clothing brand Patagonia and his family have given away ownership of the three-billion-dollar conglomerate so that...
A worker at the International Paper mill in Prattville, Alabama, was performing routine maintenance on a paper-making machine in mid-June...
Healthcare advocates on Thursday cheered an announcement that California will take on Big Pharma greed and the insulin affordability crisis...
Workers at an Apple store outside Baltimore have formed the tech giant’s first retail union in the U.S., marking another...
For most homeowners in the U.S., it will take roughly eight years to break even on a solar power investment....
The Biden administration is proposing a major policy change that it believes will help 200,000 uninsured Americans get comprehensive health plans while making coverage...
Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York won their election Friday to form the retail giant’s first-ever union in the...
From solar power that cuts NYC energy bills and powers streetlights in Detroit to affordable high-speed internet throughout the United...
15 billion of federal money from the Infrastructure bill will go to funding a project that would replace all old...
More than half of workers in the global oil and gas sector say they are interested in pursuing employment in...
Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Pramila Jayapal celebrated Monday’s announcement from the U.S. Labor Department that all federal contract...
The ongoing ravages of Covid-19 last year, and related solar power price inflation, failed to dent the photovoltaic industry’s ability...
The $3.5 trillion dollar Build Back Better Act of 2021, in its current form, faces opposition in Congress not only...
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing spike in unemployment, poverty in the U.S. declined by roughly 2.6% from 2019 to...
The collective wealth of the top billionaires in the U.S. has increased by nearly two-thirds during the pandemic, not only...
The Fight for $15 kicked off in November 2012, with a relatively small—yet also historically large—group of New York City...
Cities looking to do right by their communities on climate are greening their expenditures, and that goal is made a...
Back in March, when Democrats were still working to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan into law,...
Joe Biden has signed an executive order targeting anti-competitive practices across the economy that could have major ramifications for America’s...
More people than ever are getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, providing new proof of the law’s value...
A new report finds that the direct relief checks that were sent out as part of the stimulus packages passed...
In what is a ridiculously long overdue proposal, President Joe Biden is advocating doubling the size of the IRS, adding tens...
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 on Tuesday plans to sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for workers under federal contracts...
A new report by the University of California at Berkeley makes several bold claims. First, it says all new cars and trucks...
The days since President Joe Biden introduced his infrastructure plan have seen an all-hands push from his economic team to convince the...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has dismissed more than 40 key science advisers appointed by former President Donald Trump, a move...
A head of a subcommittee hearing on the “soaring” cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont),...
President Biden cut child poverty in half with the American Rescue Plan, and he is following it up by making...
The idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 from its current $7.25 is broadly popular, a Reuters/Ipsos...
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...
The Biden administration says it has begun reaching out to elected officials, Native American tribes and other stakeholders as part...
Time and again over the past few years, as he fought to protect his coworkers at Bobcat’s North Dakota plant,...
Despite a turbulent start to the 2020s, an important and positive message for rural America is emerging in the decade...
President Joe Biden said on Monday that internal combustion cars and trucks in the federal government’s existing vehicle fleet will...
The Biden-Harris plan for COVID-19 relief contains a lot of good stuff tucked into it, like this: a child tax...
Social justice organizations and Democratic lawmakers on Friday welcomed President Joe Biden’s expected executive actions boosting federal food aid as...
With more than a third of households struggling to afford basic needs such as food and rent, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a...
New York state announced plans on Wednesday to eject oil and gas stocks from its $226 billion financial portfolio, becoming...
Ten years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to overturn it....
A report released Wednesday by a new nonprofit—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic disaster, and calls...
Green groups celebrated a “resounding victory for taxpayers, public health, and the environment” late Wednesday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from...
Ready for a dollop of good news in an otherwise bleak world? A movement begun by high school students in...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday applauded a new study published today by a team of epidemiologists in the peer-reviewed medical...
