Tag: federal workers
Trump suggests federal workers borrow groceries to get by during longest...
As the shutdown continues with no end in sight, many workers are turning to food banks and food pantries for help.
Amid shutdown, Trump signs order freezing federal workers’ 2019 pay
“As if missed paychecks and working without pay were not enough, now they have been told that they don’t even deserve a modest pay increase.”
Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 31
Corporate profits reach new heights, Trump cancels pay raise for federal workers, Canada rescinds Trans Mountain pipeline approval, and more.
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The chicken or the egg?
What the Covid-19 pandemic says about the US...
How Mitch McConnell’s republicans are destroying America
Time and again, they’ve shown that they only care about their wealthy donors and corporate backers.
Suppressed 2020: The fight to vote
Amidst a global health crisis, the cruel weaponization of vote-by-mail restrictions has turned the constitutional right to vote into a choice between life and death.
Physicists: 90% chance of human society collapsing within decades
The model developed by the physicists depicts human population growth reaching a maximum level that is undermined by the shrinking of forests, which will not have enough resources left to sustain people.
COVID-19 crisis highlights big meat companies’ lack of openness
Meat companies’ evasive language about what is happening to animals during the COVID-19 crisis is part of a larger pattern that suppresses open debate about the ethical costs of food production in the U.S.