ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and other oil companies are paying negative taxes on huge profits. Sheldon Whitehouse, Ro Khanna, and other Democrats in Congress propose a windfall tax to change that.
Starbucks, McDonald’s, Chipotle, Amazon – all protect profits by making customers pay more. We need the political courage to say they can and should cover rising costs themselves
The wealth workers should have received, had wages kept up with productivity, was instead given to shareholders.
Neoliberals say that inflation is caused by high social spending and good wages, and that working-class people must sacrifice these to bring prices down. But there are other causes of inflation, and solutions that don’t pit us against ourselves.
Corporations are using inflation as an excuse to raise prices and make fatter profits — and it's making the problem worse
Senator Joe Manchin is already a crucial swing vote in the Democrats’ sweeping budget bill. But he will also write the details of its climate change program
By striking down the CDC's eviction moratorium, said one critic, the Supreme Court "sided with rich corporate landlords that are itching to kick out vulnerable families."
Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.
Gig economy companies were not true pioneers. The truth behind their dominance is their aggressive market takeovers, aided by their precarious labor model. The piece wage’s effect is to induce workers to toil longer and harder for less.
Under the current system, “the lungs of the Earth are being plowed up and bulldozed to plant more corn and soybeans so that more animals can be raised in confinement.” "Farmers need to follow the lead of India’s farmers and make our voices heard.”
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