There is a very real and critical role played by 24-hour breakfast joint Waffle House in FEMA’s determination of how bad a disaster is. The “Waffle House Index” is green when the…
With all eyes on Brett Kavanaugh and rumors of a possible 25th Amendment ouster of President Trump, Republicans in Congress are hoping to pass yet another bill that would drastically cut taxes…
Taxpayers in King County, Washington (which houses Seattle) will now fork over $135 million to upgrade Safeco Field, which houses the Seattle Mariners baseball team. Mike Rosenberg of The Seattle Times reported…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is so wealthy . And yet, conditions for his employees are . Now, former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is taking aim at the Bezos problem. Sanders introduced a…
Amazon, which has a pattern of cruelly exploiting workers, has just become the second American company to top $1 trillion in market value. CNN reported that Amazon surpassed the trillion-dollar mark on…
The latest after-tax corporate profits reported in the second quarter of 2018 are at a record high. Meanwhile, nearly half of the country struggles to pay for basic necessities. As the Wall…
One startling metric may explain why so many millennials are opting to not have kids: The cost of child care is astronomical. Apartment site HotPads.com recently analyzed data from both the U.S.…
Telecoms giant AT&T is at the top of its industry and making billions, yet the company is still firing thousands of American workers. In June of this year, AT&T of media giant…
Amazon is using an ever-increasing amount of electricity, but ratepayers and local businesses are having to shoulder the burden. According to a recent article in Bloomberg, cloud technology utilized by Amazon —…
A vast majority of city council members in San Antonio, Texas voted to give all workers paid sick leave on Thursday. According to the Texas Tribune, the new paid sick leave ordinance…