Tag: economy

A field guide to our threadbare social safety net...

“These companies are not going to give you everything out of the goodness of their hearts. They start sweating when they see you standing together.”

The PRO Act will help to level the playing field and arrest the decades-long erosion of labor rights that significantly accelerated under the previous, anti-worker presidential administration.

“The reason for this is because women are over-represented in the hardest-hit sectors: service, leisure/hospitality, education and healthcare services.”

Perhaps we need some of that now. That is not insurrection or revolution. Let us call it EVOLUTION.

“I would suggest going back to our older society by raising taxes on the rich and enforcing anti-trust laws.”

Scientists call the coral reefs the “rainforests of the sea,” because coral reefs—like rainforests—are highly diverse ecosystems; their destruction would lead to the extinction of a large number of species.

Trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax. The benefits of build-up economics are real.

Please remind the New York Times that as a U.S. paper, it has an obligation to cover the effects of U.S. government policy on countries like Venezuela.

“Major tax cuts for the rich since the 1980s have increased income inequality, with all the problems that brings, without any offsetting gains in economic performance.”