Tag: corporate greed
As executives hike prices, US corporations rake in biggest profits since...
"Corporations can get away with it because they have too much power in the economy."
Voters from both parties overwhelmingly want Biden to crack down on...
"A Biden administration that pursues crooked CEOs and brings down abusive corporate titans will find a willing audience in the American public."
Progressives to Biden: If you want to be popular, take on...
"Actual politics requires taking action against actual villains to solve problems, not... shrugging and cowering."
How corporations pumped up CEO pay while their low-wage workers suffered...
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.
While the rest of the U.S. was struggling, 55 corporations paid...
“We should continue to call on policymakers to address the gaping corporate tax loopholes that make this kind of tax avoidance possible.”
Water is life. Can we protect it?
Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed. They can learn a lot from El Salvador.
Sanders leads Senate demand for $1,200 stimulus checks over ‘get-out-of-jail free...
"Please join us in demanding that any new Covid relief proposal includes a $1,200 direct payment to adults and $500 to their children."
Indigenous Peruvians protest mining pollution
In countries like Peru, extractive industries contract police to suppress Indigenous protesters and detain international observers — including me.
Sanders joins union leaders and healthcare workers in protesting ‘corporate greed’-fueled...
"People will get hurt, and they will die as a direct result of this one man's action."
A shiny new tool to pad profits: Stealing
One entire group being victimized by corporate thieves are the 4.3 million Americans who make up our “tipped workforce.”
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Climate change costs to hit $38 trillion annually by 2050
New study reveals stark economic disparities as global warming intensifies, disproportionately affecting the world's poorest nations.
Children among hundreds found in new mass grave at Gaza hospital
A horrifying discovery in Khan Younis raises alarms about the profound toll of ongoing hostilities on the most vulnerable.
Senator Sanders proposes major cuts to Israeli military aid amid human rights concerns
Amid accusations of genocide and widespread human rights abuses, Senator Bernie Sanders champions amendments to halt offensive military funding to Israel, sparking a critical Senate debate.
Historic Gaza protests at Columbia U. enter day 6; campus protests spread across country
Solidarity protests and encampments have now sprouted up on campuses across the country, including at Yale, MIT, Tufts, NYU, The New School and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Senators unveil landmark bill to ban junk food ads aimed at kids amid rising...
Senators Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, and Peter Welch propose the Childhood Diabetes Reduction Act, targeting junk food advertisements to combat the escalating diabetes and obesity epidemic among children.