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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Payday Loans Face New Limits Under Proposal From US Consumer Bureau
The US agency charged with protecting consumers from financial abuse unveiled a proposal Thursday that would make it difficult for payday loan lenders to "push distressed borrowers into reborrowing" and cap short-term loans.
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"It’s Time for a Land Reform Movement": An Interview with Cooperative Property Specialist Cassandra Ferrera
"We have huge indoctrinated systems to hack, heal and transform. The kind of real estate we practice acknowledges a fundamental re-establishment of the interconnected health of our watersheds, our foodsheds and our human communities."
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"Young People Are Losing Faith In Capitalism": An Interview with ROAR Magazine's Jerome Roos
Jerome Roos started ROAR Magazine just as the Arab Spring was getting underway, and today it has evolved into a global alternative news outlet covering social movements with a uniquely radical lens.
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CEO Pay In 2015: When a $468,449 Raise Is Typical
CEOs at the biggest companies got a 4.5 percent pay raise last year. That's almost double the typical American worker's.
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Mayoral Candidate Pledges to Make Manchester a "Beacon of Social Justice"
In an attempt to tackle the inequality separating Britain's North and South, Labour MP and mayoral candidate Andy Burnham pledges to improve education, housing and economic wellbeing in Greater Manchester.
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Air France Pilots Join Growing Transport Strike Roiling France
Labor unrest could affect air, rail, subway and boat traffic on the eve of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament.
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Basic Income Gathers Steam Across Europe
Barcelona: In the last few months basic income—an unconditional cash payment to every member of the population—has been getting more and more attention in the media and social networks. Three items are especially interesting.
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Climate Justice from the Ground Up: 6 Ballot Initiatives to Watch in 2016
These ballot measures are noteworthy because they don’t just regulate emissions or mandate transitions – they help the economically insecure, create incentives for individual change, and reassert local authority over corporate polluters.
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In Black Lives Matter's shift to economic issues, echoes of Black Panthers
Nearly two years after people took to the streets in Ferguson to protest the killing of Michael Brown, the nationwide movement has broadened its focus to community empowerment in ways reminiscent of the Black Panthers of the 60s.
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Victorious in Maine, Nestlé is on a Quest to Take Over the World's Water
The Swiss corporation Nestlé has a penchant for gobbling up huge areas of freshwater across the planet and bottling it for profit – even as judges, courts, cities and entire regions try to stand in their way.
