Category Archives: Income disparity

Energy Workers to Stage More Protests as Companies Raise Bills but Not Pay

Employees at Drax, Grangemouth and other energy sites will walk out every fortnight as firms rake in huge profits.

How Employers Are Trying to Thwart a Wave of Union Drives

Union organizers are making headway, as measured by the more-aggressive cororate efforts to hobble them.

America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population

American became an outlier among rich countries in mortality rates pre pandemic, and Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.

Recession Mongers Shocked & Horrified by This Surge in Employment

Perversely, investors want a recession to force the Fed to pivot. But it’s tough to have an official recession with employment growing.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-One: Uber’s Legitimate Cumulative Losses Top $32 Billion; P&L Improvements Driven by Much Higher Fares and Multi-Billion Dollar Transfers From Drivers to Shareholders

Even big fare hikes and cuts to driver pay have failed to produce profits at Uber. And these pricing changes are not likely to be sustainable.

Why It’s Essential for Congress to Reauthorize Trade Adjustment Assistance

Workers attest that the Trade Adjustment Assistance has helped them move into new careers when employers offshore jobs. Will it be cut?

Truss and Sunak’s Reheated Thatcherism Is the Last Thing the UK Needs

Truss and Sunak treat the Iron Lady as their muse, while Labour touts another flavor of neoliberalism, that of Tony Blair.

Michael Hudson: American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama

American policies have become astonishingly obvious about not simply putting the US first, but also exploiting supposed partners to do so.

Left in the Dark: The Families Struggling to Survive Fuel Poverty

The future many in the UK and Europe will suffer this winter: having to choose between food and fuel.

Sri Lanka: Why the Philippines Offers a Warning for What Might Come Next

Could Sri Lanka see the disgraced Rajapaksas return to power, like the Marcos family has in the Philippines?