Yearly Archives: 2021
Raising the minimum wage is a health issue, too
Study after study has linked higher income to better health.
A new home for activists, and a new way of building in communities
“If you’re really interested in changing things—if you want to say you’re being proactively anti-racist—you’ll have to go out of your comfort zones and the confines of the project.”
New report: World’s 60 largest banks have poured $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since...
Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016.
Amazon intimidates workers amid historic union vote in Alabama as Jeff Bezos makes $7...
Amazon has fought off labor organizing at the company for decades, but workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver and Southern California are now also reportedly considering union drives.
Report finds climate polluters are spending millions on sports sponsorships
"Sport is in the frontline of the climate emergency but floats on a sea of sponsorship deals with the major polluters."
The boundless advantages of the welfare state — for the rich
Patenting the sun. Some of today's super-rich would love to add that subsidy to their welfare state.
The urgent need for a Biden-Putin summit
If the leaders of the two countries with more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear warheads can’t have a summit meeting and talk with each other, we’re in trouble. Real trouble.
Tax evasion and the 1%
“The richest 1% of U.S. households don’t report 21% of their income.”
‘End the filibuster and pass gun safety laws. Now’: Colorado massacre intensifies demands for...
“You’re going to see another round of ‘we can’t do anything yet, there was a tragedy’ hand-wringing, but we must end gun violence now.”
The greater the disaster, the greater the profits
The border-industrial complex in the post-Trump era...