Research & Commentary

Our tax dollars should make life better — not go to waste on bloated military contracts and Pentagon boondoggles. Here’s what the numbers show.

Private equity, an ownership structure that puts distant financiers in charge of how a business is run, has been shown to result in worse health outcomes for patients, at greater cost.

And the affluent should pay their fair tax share to help make that access a reality for everyone.

The push for higher salaries for top honchos at the rail- road caused the derailment that ended up with a mushroom cloud of toxic chemicals hovering over East Palestine, killing thousands of animals including family pets and sickening residents and workers.

The majority of us support debt relief, but lobbyist-backed lawsuits are holding back Americans from achieving a better life.

A new GOP bill, formally entitled the ’Death Tax Repeal Act,’ would enable our super-rich to avoid both income and estate tax on their investment gains.

As platforms have become giants over the course of the last years, accumulating an immense amount of wealth, workers across platforms in different parts of the world push for a better, fairer working world.

The legislation will end "the failed experiment of gutting Michigan workers' rights," said one lawmaker.

The president’s plan for jobs, families, and health reflects the things most of us value. But it should spend more on those and less on the Pentagon.

Campuses are becoming sites of labor organizing and struggle. The Labor Spring movement is emerging to build that energy across the country.