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Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 179% since 1979 while share of wages for bottom 90% hits new low

Phyllis Taylor’s company is responsible for the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history. That’s been a disaster for the Gulf of Mexico — but a tax bonanza for Taylor.

A guide for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the politically confused.

Bosnia’s coal workers and Serbia’s anti-mining protesters have an interest in a common cause: a system that puts people and environment over geopolitical competition and profit.

Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.

With the past half-century’s experience, it’s become harder to deny that suffering arises not from nature’s deficit but humanity’s failure—our failure to reverse the tightening concentration of wealth and the decline of democracies around the world.

St. Vincent Hospital Nurses and Tenet Healthcare Reach Tentative Agreement Clearing the Way for an End to the Historic Nine-Month Strike Pending Ratification by the Nurses

The decision will increase access to medication abortion for women in remote and rural areas without providers nearby.

“We think what we can’t see can’t hurt us,” says poet Ann Hudson about environmental pollution. Think again.

After facing 98% unemployment in the depths of the pandemic, the strongest union in Las Vegas has risen again.