Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Abandoning the poor

Or confronting the needless scourge of poverty.

Private yachts as long as football fields

In what universe can this energy-guzzling reality possibly make any sense?

Labor education starts in school

Giving K-12 students the language, information, and tools they need to protect themselves from workplace exploitation is a critical tool to reversing the nation’s capitalism-fueled inequality.

Palm oil: the ingredient behind human rights abuses and eco-destruction that’s probably in your...

Palm oil is found in 50 percent of all consumer goods. And it’s killing the environment.

Closing Guantánamo?

Yes, a snail’s pace… but a pace.

Medicare Advantage overbills taxpayers by $140 billion a year—enough to wipe out Medicare premiums

"Medicare Advantage is just another example of the endless greed of the insurance industry poisoning American healthcare," says a new report from Physicians for a National Health Program.

The price of Amazon’s ‘Prime’ business model is our bodies

With Amazon notorious for having one of highest injury rates in the warehouse industry, workers are demanding accommodations system reform to ensure that workers don’t have to sacrifice their health to keep their jobs.

Largest healthcare worker strike in US history set to kick off on Oct. 4

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in six states and Washington, D.C. are set to stop working for three days starting Wednesday to protest unfair working conditions and unsafe staffing levels.

How about a general strike against Dollar General?

The brutal Dollar General approach to managing retail has paid off handsomely—for Dollar General investors and execs.

Kids shouldn’t have to pay for school lunches

If education is free at the point of use, why aren’t school meals?