Tag: economic crisis
Bernie Sanders: Covid relief package is “totally inadequate” for “unprecedented” economic...
“This country faces the worst set of public health and economic crises that we have faced in over a hundred years.”
Screwing with the unemployment statistics
Time for a little truth about the economic crisis.
From the sectoral to the local: Re-imagining labor and the left...
While the unintended economic disaster now unfolding throughout the world is unprecedented, the progressive left must heed the lessons of disasters like Katrina, Maria and wars of aggression in places like Iraq to be ready to confront the potentially life and death struggles ahead.
Prominent economists ask government for substantial improvements to short-time compensation program...
“Congress has the power to protect ordinary workers during this public health and economic crisis.”
‘Nightmare scenario that everyone predicted’: As millions struggle to meet basic...
“I’d be interested in knowing what help Trump and Jared are extending to their tenants as they ask for help themselves.”
Neither pandemic nor economic collapse is going to be a short-lived...
Huge layoffs = major recession; Raging infections and deaths = major epidemic.
There’s a new crash coming
Skyrocketing debt, Wall Street deregulation, a fraying social safety net, and a diminished dollar could soon leave the United States looking like Greece.
The aftershocks of the economic collapse are still being felt
“…the political fallout of the global financial crisis is only just getting started. The real confrontation, it seems, is yet to come.”
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The MAGA Movement is Jonestown writ large
The reversion to primitivism bears a striking resemblance to the rise of the MAGA movement.
Medicaid on the chopping block: GOP budget advances as disabled protesters cry, ‘You will...
Republicans push deep Medicaid cuts in late-night sessions as disabled protesters are arrested, and millions face the loss of life-saving coverage.
‘This is where kids with cancer are’: Israel bombs Gaza hospitals, kills dozens as...
U.S.-backed Israeli strikes destroy hospitals in Khan Younis, killing patients, staff, and journalists as Gaza’s health system nears total collapse under allegations of war crimes.
Poof! It’s gone
The America we once knew...gone!
Trump-GOP tax bill delivers $5 trillion to billionaires while slashing aid for working families
The legislation extends Trump-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, adds new corporate giveaways, and revives controversial provisions targeting civil society, while gutting Medicaid and SNAP.