Smoothstack, with some Fortune 500 clients, demanded its employees stay at the company for about two years or face fines up to $30,000.
Read more...Rent has become unaffordable in many US cities. But Biden makes a gesture about it only when his campaign is floundering.
Read more...A McKinsey report focusing on an extremely high job vacancy ratio in recent years cherry-picks data about the state of the U.S. labor market.
Read more...Despite reports of ruthless Biden efforts at containment, calls for him to withdraw from the 2024 race grow.
Read more...More discussion of tariffs as the US is using to whack Chinese imports, above all EVs.
Read more...EU diplomats deride Orban for conducting diplomacy, but polls show that Europeans are increasingly in favor of a negotiated end to the war.
Read more...Documenting the role of the AMA in blocking public health care in the US.
Read more...Big donors and Biden are duking it out as to whether he goes or stays. How much does it matter that voters are visibly disenfranchised?
Read more...US and Fed bad cooking has led to weak growth the world, and by urging poor countries to borrow at once-low rates, debt distress.
Read more...Yves here. Thank the persistent and very long running campaign to move the values of the US to the right for the hollowing out of the meaning of traditional political labels that Michael Hudson describes below. It can’t be said often enough that the change in the where the center was perceived to sit was […]
Read more...An updated look at the classic resource curse.
Read more...The “second American Revolution” underway will “remain bloodless,” said the head of Project 2025 “if the left allows it to be.”
Read more...Fiscal pressures are set to intensify battles among shifting European leadership groups as to how much to spend and on what.
Read more...A new study finds that revenue-funded healthcare is cost-effective, efficient, and fair, while all health insurance has avoidable excess cost
Read more...Even with union power diminished, union members still benefit from higher weekly pay than non-members.
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