Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos grew his net worth by more than $400 million in a 24-hour period this week. Meanwhile, his workers are laboring away in oppressive heat with no…
The local government in Seattle, Washington has officially caved to Amazon in its efforts to implement a small tax on the city’s biggest corporations that would have helped fund housing for the…
AT&T’s proposed merger with Time Warner will now officially move forward without conditions, after a decision issued Tuesday evening by federal judge Richard Leon. The AT&T/Time Warner merger will mean that AT&T…
Trump once tweeted that trade wars were good. Now the New York Times is reporting that not even his own advisers are buying it. While the White House contends that the Trump…
In a stunning victory for the labor movement, employees at a Boeing factory in Charleston, South Carolina have officially voted to join the International Association of Machinists. Labor journalist Mike Elk of…
Employees at a Chick-fil-A fast food restaurant in Sacramento, California will soon get a big increase in their paychecks, proving its possible for the fast food industry to pay higher wages to…
(EDITOR’S NOTE, 2:20 AM ET, 5/26/18: This article originally sourced tweets from progressive nonprofit Public Citizen containing donations to supporters of the bill. Public Citizen’s tweets have since been deleted. We have…
The Trump tax cuts are the rocket fuel propelling us toward the next financial crisis. That insight comes from Goldman Sachs. Despite some between what the Trump tax cuts were and what…
The gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has never been more pronounced when comparing the reality of most households to that of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. A study…
A new report by the New York City Office of the Comptroller shows how home rental site Airbnb is personally burdening the city’s renters. The report by Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, published…