Big Food Raking in Huge Profits From Price Hikes as US Hunger Persists: Analysis
Big food company profit-goosing price hikes confirms that the Fed is barking up the wrong tree in going after labor.
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New Wave of Asylum-Seekers at US Southern Border as Title 42 Expires
Even the mainstream media acknowledges that an expected surge of immigrants at the US border will push a bad situation into crisis.
Read more...We Can Use AI in the Economy but Only If We Are Willing To Tax Capital More Heavily
What future is there for labor with AI?
Read more...A New Republican Assault on Children: Overturning Labor Laws
Big employers like McDonalds have been caught illegally employing children. Some state want to regulize that. But is this just a GOP affair?
Read more...Workers Who Have Occupied an Italian Factory for Two Years Are Getting Close to Owning It Themselves
Workers are attempting to start Italy’s first community and non-profit factory that could become an inspiration for workers elsewhere. Could it happen in the US?
Read more...How Union Members Honor Workers’ Memorial Day
April 28 was Workers Memorial Day in the US when union workers rededicate themselves to the fight for safer working conditions.
Read more...Amex Customers – Above-Average-Income Consumers – Are Spending like Drunken Sailors, incl. on Travel & Restaurants
They’re the Big Spenders, they can move the needle. Millennials and Gen Z-ers are now the drivers of this growth.
Read more...Do Dem Party Leaders Want to Increase Support from Independents?
The US is split between party loyalists and independents who don’t trust either tribe to watch their back.
Read more...Is Labour Purging the Left? Inside the Party’s Embattled Selection Process
‘This is the most fundamental attempt to change the DNA of the Labour Party in its entire history’
Read more...The Presidential Campaign of Convict 9653
Eugene Debs, the socialist who ran for President despite being a convict times two, is again in the spotlight.
Read more...Social Security May Be Failing Well Over a Million People With Disabilities – And COVID-19 Is Making the Problem Worse
Research suggests that well over 1 million people with disabilities are not getting the assistance they need, and even those who receive benefits are likely not getting enough.
Read more...Wall Street, Venture Capital Drive High Drug Prices
How the government enables drug company grifting via giving them the store while funding reserch.
Read more...About That Bipartisanship…
What kind of bipartisanship do we want? Smooth-as-silk to grow our Pentagon and Praetorian Guard? Or disruptive to fight against all that?
Read more...For Uninsured People With Cancer, Securing Care Can Be Like Spinning a Roulette Wheel
Contending with cancer is horrific enough. Fighting to get care is scary, demoraizing, and can be fatal.
Read more...The Impact of Inflation
The IMF takes a wee look at who is hurt by and benefits from inflation.
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