Guess Who Slipped a Pro-Corporate Provision into the Infrastructure Bill?
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Harold Meyerson: The Little Union That’s Reviving the Strike
The American Prospect publishes two of our nation’s most thoughtful commentators: Harold Meyerson and Robert Kuttner. They represent liberalism at its best; they are on...
Tight Labor Market Forces Minimum Wage Up to $15 an Hour for More Workers
When candidate Joe Biden proposed raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15, it seemed like pie in the sky. When labor...
Economic Policy Institute: Why Unions Are Good for America
The union movement built the middle class. For most of the past century, big business and plutocrats have waged war on unions and have largely...
U.S. Treasury: Richest Americans Dodge $163 Billion inTaxes
CBS News reported on an analysis by the U.S. Treasury showing that the richest Americans avoid paying $163 billion each year. The top 1% of...
McKenzie Scott Gives Away Another $2.7 Billion
When Jeff Bezos divorced McKenzie Scott in 2019, she received 4 percent of Amazon shares, valued then at $36 billion. She determined that she wanted...
Saving the Commons: This I Believe
Privatization of important parts of the public sector is a great scourge of our times. No institution is more fundamental to the American Dream than...
Ezra Klein Interviews Bernie Sanders
Ezra Klein of the New York Times interviewed Senator Bernie Sanders for his podcast, “The Ezra Klein Show.” Listen to “The Ezra Klein Show”:Apple Podcasts, Pocket...
New Yorker: Union Vote in Bessemer Is Crucial to Revival of Labor and the Fairness of the Economy
Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes in the New Yorker about the importance of the vote on whether to unionize at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama. The...
Economic Policy Institute: As Unions Decline, Income Inequality Grows
The Economic Policy Institute is one of the very few think tanks in Washington, D.C., that is not funded by Bill Gates or the Waltons....