Tag: economy
With pandemic a ‘tipping point,’ UN warns 1 billion more people...
Unless strong and meaningful action is taken now, including major social investments and a Green New Deal-style program, the Covid-19 crisis will make an already dire economic situation much worse.
Election, legal disasters, surging Covid cases, economy stumbling: Just “too much...
Major irony: the perceived, 2016 “change” candidate was and is utterly incapable of change.
How Americans can help the frontline workers battling Covid-19
The pandemic highlighted the essential work that nursing home staff members perform—and the necessity of treating them as essential workers from now on.
Greenpeace releases far-reaching ‘just recovery agenda’ to tackle interlocking crises of...
We must “shift from an economy that is extractive and exploitative to one that regenerates and repairs,” the new report says.
How Mitch McConnell flouts the will of the American people
Right now, one person—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—stands in the way of America’s fight against COVID-19.
The federal government owns 92% of student debt. Will Biden wipe...
lifting these financial burdens would help individual debt holders meet daily needs, reduce the racial wealth gap, and give a boost to the national economy.
Multisolving our way to Covid-19 economic recovery
Addressing the coronavirus pandemic can also provide opportunities to fight climate change and boost equity.
Biden health adviser has a plan to get pandemic under control...
The government “could pay for a package right now” to cover economic losses—making it possible to curb Covid-19 transmission without increasing the financial suffering associated with shutting down commerce, said epidemiologist Michael Osterholm.
Politicians try to rally support for coal despite economics and Biden...
"I want to make sure that we conservatives keep on fighting to make sure we don't have a Green New Deal, we don't get rid of gas and coal and oil, that we don't have a Medicare For All plan ..."
BlackRock stakeholders do not consent to bankrolling violence
As BlackRock has boisterously taken up the mantle of sustainable investing, it must do more to shepherd us into a peace-based economy.
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Not very bright
How much of Donald Trump’s directive on U.S. tariffs imposed on nations all over the world—that in recent days has caused a stock market loss of trillions of dollars—is a result of his not being very bright?
Patriotic Millionaires challenge oligarch power with sweeping economic plan
As economic inequality worsens and public frustration grows, a coalition of wealthy Americans offers a radical legislative blueprint to dismantle the grip of the ultra-rich on democracy.
Chevron ordered to pay $744 million for decades of destruction to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands
A Louisiana jury’s landmark verdict against Chevron signals a major shift in holding Big Oil accountable for environmental degradation and decades of ignored coastal restoration laws.
Over 4,000 factory workers laid off as Trump tariffs spark economic chaos
A wave of mass layoffs across the U.S. exposes the real cost of Trump’s trade war, as union leaders and lawmakers warn of deepening instability in American manufacturing.
Israeli soldiers expose ‘kill zone’ campaign in Gaza, citing war crimes and systematic devastation
A new report from Breaking the Silence reveals shocking testimony from Israeli troops describing the creation of a lethal buffer zone inside Gaza, the deliberate razing of civilian infrastructure, and the normalization of killing civilians.