Tag: jobs
Jobs, the environment, and a planet in crisis
When it comes to heat, extreme weather, wildfires, and melting glaciers, the planet is now in what the media increasingly refers to as “record” territory,...
Job growth bounces back in June, but unemployment edges upward
While workers are seeing modest real wage growth, it is much less than would be expected with the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.
Legal marijuana is a job creation machine
We can see this playing out in the states that have legalized marijuana. Early legalizers, Colorado and Washington, saw double-digit jobs growth last year.
Here are the 19 companies that have laid people off after...
More than half of the coalition of companies that fought for slashing the corporate tax rate have made layoffs since the GOP tax bill's enactment.
Trump takes on General Motors (and guess who wins?)
If Trump were serious about his aims, he’d try to reduce the chokehold of Wall Street investors on American corporations while strengthening the hand of American labor unions.
GM, jobs, and corporate America’s incentive to exploit
Executive pay excess is driving decisions that are turning workers – and their communities – into sacrificial lambs.
Hey! Democracy! Choices!
Our enlightened self-interest is at stake, the well-being of our children and grandchildren is in the balance. Let’s do right.
Facebook is letting job advertisers target only men
A review by ProPublica found that 15 employers in the past year, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex, with many of the ads playing to stereotypes.
Want to create jobs? Reduce fossil fuel use
Energy efficiency creates more jobs than fossil fuels – and at a faster rate and lower cost.
Why wages are going nowhere
The combination of high corporate profits and growing corporate political power has created a vicious cycle.
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Sander’s monumental mistake: failing to explain exactly what a democratic socialist government is
It’s time that Sanders speaks out, explains what democratic socialism is and reminds Americans that it is a central part of this country, and that’s why he espouses that political ideology.
Yale study says Medicare for All would save US $450 billion, prevent nearly 70,000...
The study in The Lancet found that Medicare for All, supported by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, will save money and is more cost-effective than “Medicare for All Who Want It."
Factchecking NPR’s attempted takedown of Bernie Sanders
Their ignorance is willful, and finds its roots in a profoundly ideological position, an ideology adopted by journalists who favor and are rewarded by corporate arguments promoted by corporate Democrats.
New study shows Medicare for All will save Americans billions and prevent thousands of...
This study helps quiet several attacks made on Medicare for All from the private healthcare industry.
America’s democracy versus Trump fascism. Which will prevail?
The American people better wake soon and realize that this nation’s democracy is under direct attack by these forces of fascism.