It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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Fast-Food Workers Launch Wave Of Strikes For 2016 Primaries
Fast-food workers announced Friday that an unprecedented wave of strikes and actions calling for $15 and union rights will hit this primary season to hammer home to candidates that the nearly 64 million Americans paid less than $15 an hour are a voting
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Meet the "Emerging Market" Superstars of Global Economic Governance, Part I
Introducing Agustin Carstens and Raghuram Rajan: one is Mexican, described by the Financial Times for his “Wall Street-sized reputation for financial wizardry,” and the other is Indian hailed by India’s Economic Times as “the Poster Boy of Banking.”
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Climate Protests In 10 U.S. Cities Call For Tougher Clean Power Plan
Environmental justice leaders from communities hardest-hit by climate change will converge Jan. 19 on regional EPA headquarters to denounce the mining, fracking, burning and dumping of waste threatening U.S. towns and cities.
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Richest 62 Billionaires As Wealthy As Half the World's Population
The vast and growing gap between rich and poor has been laid bare in a new Oxfam report showing that a handful of elites own as much wealth as the poorer half of the global population.
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How the Wealthy Are Ruining American Health Care
Corporate lobbyists and wealthy activists dictate much of American politics today – and nowhere is that clearer than in the political battle over the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, where uber-wealthy donors impair access to healthcare.
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Tipping Point for Anthropocene: Fossil Fuel Burning Is "Postponing the Next Ice Age"
“The bottom line is we are basically skipping a whole glacial cycle, which is unprecedented."
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To Put Bankers Behind Bars, Spanish Citizens Take the 1% to Court
Along with the infamous former politician and criminal bank chief Rodrigo Rato, 66 other Spanish bankers and politicians will face trial in 2016 for crimes committed before and during the financial crisis.
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“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
Not only is Adam McKay's movie a good way to understand how the big banks screwed millions of Americans out of their homes, savings, and jobs, then got bailed out by taxpayers – but a lesson in why they’re on the way to doing all this again.
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Soaring Solar Market Eclipses Oil and Gas Adding 35,000 U.S. Jobs In 2015
he solar industry created jobs 12 times faster than the rest of the economy last year – and now employs over 200,000 people, with the cost of installing solar dropping $2 per watt over the last five years.
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British Columbia Puts the Kibosh On Kinder Morgan Pipeline Expansion
After fierce environmental and aboriginal resistance, the BC government said it will formally oppose the Trans Mountain pipeline's expansion to the Canadian west coast – signaling the latest blow to tar sands producers, and a victory for the climate.
