Thursday, October 22, 2026

5 ways we need to improve health care accessibility for vulnerable populations 

The United States is a study in health care inequality.
An Amazon Prime delivery van parked on a residential street in Queens, New York. Photo: Tdorante10 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Teamsters accuse Amazon and 13 subcontractors of skipping New York’s layoff notice law

The union puts the unpaid back wages at up to $11 million as a City Council bill to make Amazon hire its drivers directly reaches 34 sponsors

World’s richest launch ​$1 billion ​fund to ​fight ​climate ​change, invest in clean tech

This week, a group of top tech executives from Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and more will reportedly meet with the president-elect.
The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
The Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building in Washington, headquarters of the Office of Personnel Management. Photo: ajay_suresh / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On September 2, federal layoff appeals move from the Merit Systems Protection Board to...

Ninety-nine percent of the 1,252 public comments opposed the change, and employees will no longer be able to take a final decision to federal court.
The City of London skyline. Photo: Colin and Kim Hansen / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fabrications, fraud and false accounting: how Deloitte helped Abramovich hide $10bn

The Big Four firm spent years fabricating corporate papers that helped the sanctioned oligarch conceal assets and dodge tax

Federal court strikes down ICE’s courthouse arrest policy nationwide

The ACLU says the New York ruling restores limits on civil immigration arrests at or near immigration courts, effective immediately

House bill would let Marco Rubio strip passports over political speech

Provision would let the Secretary of State deny or revoke passports over alleged “material support” as critics warn of thought policing and unchecked authority.
A Starbucks storefront in Long Beach, California. Photo: Brad.K / CC BY 2.0

Starbucks Workers United calls nationwide boycott as contract fight drags on

The AFL-CIO's 65 unions endorsed the campaign as more than 550 unfair labor practice charges sit unresolved against the company.

White makes ‘far’ right!!

Hey, Captain Ron, did you forget your ancestral roots? Shame on you!!!