Tag: Institute for Policy Studies
Low-wage S&P 500 companies spent $718 billion on stock buybacks since...
The same 100 corporations pay their median workers 614 times less than their CEOs and lobbied for cuts to the food and health aid those workers rely on
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Starbucks Workers United calls nationwide boycott as contract fight drags on
The AFL-CIO's 65 unions endorsed the campaign as more than 550 unfair labor practice charges sit unresolved against the company.
Supreme Court lets Trump’s mail ballot order advance, calls states’ challenge premature
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a solo dissent that the ruling needlessly injects chaos into an election two months away.
“Most Americans Are Getting Poorer”: Robert Reich on Inequality & the Failures of Corporate...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on UC Berkeley to fire Reich after he disputed White House claims that the wealth gap has closed.
How much sleep do I need? Why you can forget the eight-hour rule
Eight hours isn’t necessarily the magic number for sleep. Your age, body clock and individual needs all matter.
The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco
ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.