Tag: economy

Voters in Colombia have picked a powerful new duo, Gustavo Petro as president and Francia Márquez as vice president, to take the nation in a new direction, tackling economic and environmental injustice.

“Companies make any kind of excuse to raise prices on everything."

It’s a matter of math: Bigger families mean more carbon emissions.

The fact that a handful of companies produce the majority of our food means that small disruptions will have big impacts. This time the impacts are borne by American babies.

Raj Patel and Rupa Marya coauthored the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice to highlight the connections between health and structural injustice.

At America's biggest low-wage employers, chief executives now pocket 670 times more than their workers.

The Poor People’s Campaign, ahead of its June 18 gathering, is calling out the false pro-corporate rhetoric on poverty, wages, and inflation.

Guns have become an intimate part of American culture, one that is fed by gun-makers and the gun lobby, the right-wing media and Hollywood, and of course the Republican Party. Our children are paying the price.

“The severity seems to keep going up. It doesn’t go down.”

Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.