Tax the Rich or Burden Working Families? The Choice Is Clear.
As a teacher in Chicago, I've seen how prioritizing the wealthy leaves the rest of us wanting.
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The Public Pays the Price for Big Tech’s Data Centers
The relentless push for data centers is raising our power bills and polluting our communities. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Can Radio Save Lives and Reduce Poverty in War-Torn Congo?
This inexpensive technology remains an effective tool for ensuring equitable access to vital health and economic information.
Police ‘Sweeps’ of Homeless Camps Are Worse than You Think
As more and more communities criminalize homelessness, I want to share what it’s actually like to have the police take all your earthly belongings.
Colorado’s New Tax on the Rich to Pay for Free School Lunch is a Model for Other States
As Congress slashes the SNAP food assistance program, more states should raise new revenue to fill in the gap from those most able to pay more.
What It’s Like to Work for the Billionaire ‘Nickel King’
Labor activists are exposing deadly conditions for Indonesian workers who process battery nickel for Teslas and other electric cars.
Be Outraged Already: Your True Income Tax Rate May Triple the Rate the Richest U.S. Billionaires Pay
Average Americans pay taxes on almost all the income they collect each year. America’s richest don’t.
Billionaires Are Buying Your Hospitals. The 99% are Taking the Power Back.
At a People’s Summit during the G20 leaders meeting in South Africa, activists challenged health care profiteering and other ills of a global economy for the 1%.
Get on the Job and Organize: A Q&A with Jaz Brisack
The labor organizer at the core of the Starbucks Workers United campaign wants a braver labor movement.
Donald Trump, Union Buster
Trump's second term in office has been an all-out assault on organized labor.
American Taxpayers are Subsidizing Big Oil’s Extraction Abroad
A new report details how fossil fuel lobbyists have won huge U.S. tax giveaways.
This Black Friday Weekend, Skip Amazon
The e-commerce giant is powering ICE’s deportation raids while profiting handsomely from Trump administration contracts.