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A tiny uptick in wages won't do much to help Americans squeezed by debt and facing rising prices for medicine, child care, housing, and other essentials

Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the US beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.

Four in 10 workers with employer coverage have trouble paying unexpected medical bills or covering out-of-pocket costs.

Trump—with Bolton and Pence—seek to provoke a war. These are dangerous men with a dangerous agenda.

“The raids have caused fear and panic among civilians,” especially children, who are half of Gaza’s two million population.

Trump and the real troika of tyranny — Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams — have failed in their coup attempt against the democratically elected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

European fund managers are casting an increasingly skeptical eye towards the oil industry, concluding that the industry’s financial future looks grim, according to a new survey published by a London-based organization today.

Lack of political accountability, after all, is a major reason that American wars are now, to use a recent Pentagon term, “infinite.”

Aspects of the report are disturbing. Over the last year, the black unemployment rate has risen 0.2 percentage points to 6.7 percent and the white unemployment rate has dropped 0.4 percentage point to 3.1 percent. The rise is all among black men.