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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‘For common benefit of all,’ Ireland nationalizes hospitals for duration of coronavirus crisis, sparking...
“How wonderful is this. A beautiful silver lining.”
The invisible candidate and the progressive lion
As Americans on the progressive left might have expected, the one politician who is responding with the seriousness and the kind of reassuring competence that his fellow citizens need in such a difficult time, is Bernie Sanders.
Who will win the US presidential election 2020: A prediction as to the winner...
There is no doubt that Bernie will give a tough competition to Trump but if Russia provides any kind of data support to trump, he will outplace Bernie.
Trump will not use Defense Production Act to order manufacturing of vital medical equipment
With prices rising, supplies lacking, and healthcare officials working endlessly, the importance of vital medical equipment should not be negotiable.
Our #1 objective must be: Drastically reduce the fear and panic among Americans
Fear begets fear, panic begets panic, but only if we allow it to continue to happen.