How corporations pumped up CEO pay while their low-wage workers suffered in the pandemic
More than half of the country’s 100 largest low-wage employers rigged pay rules in 2020 to give CEOs 29 percent average raises while their frontline employees made 2 percent less.
The award for sleaziest corporate profiteering goes to…
Tyson Foods, which forced its employees back to work and took bets on how many would die.
Sound the alarms, McConnell and Manchin put roadblocks in front of Biden’s agenda
When will we hear our president tell us how he plans to get all this great legislation underway in a Senate that is filled with McConnell and Manchin roadblocks?
Biden administration ends Trump-era rule, banning discrimination against transgender people in health care
“Everyone – including LGBTQ people - should be able to access health care, free from discrimination or interference, period.”
Sanders, Omar, and others introduce permanent universal school meals program
“No child in the richest country in the world should face hunger.”
‘Bewitched, bothered and bewildered’ embody splintered, bickering Republicans—and no fix in sight
Demoting Liz Cheney doubles down on Rightwing Lie (after the “stolen” election): without Trump, the party is dead meat. Polling strongly disagrees.
Congresswoman Jayapal misses the mark by saying Biden deserves an ‘A’ grade
To effectively confront the enormous problems facing our country and world, progressives need to soberly assess everything—good, bad and mixed.
GDP versus lasting growth
What matters to individuals everywhere is not GDP growth, what matters, is the creation of happy, harmonious societies.
Appalling surge of anti-Asian violence—with historic roots
If ferocity against law-abiding citizens doesn’t quality as anti-American terrorism, the term needs rethinking.
Pay a living wage or ‘flip your own damn burgers’: Progressives blast right-wing narrative...
"We do not have a shortage of willing workers in this country. We have a shortage of employers who are willing to pay workers enough to live."