Amazon has just announced that it will not seek to build a headquarters in Queens after a community-led campaign protesting the $3 billion in corporate welfare Amazon was vying for. New York…
The Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) is ending their strike after finalizing a deal with Denver Public Schools (DPS) on Thursday. According to the Denver Post, teachers who went on their first…
39-year old second-generation fast food worker Terrence Wise testified Thursday to the House Committee on Education and Labor with a simple message: hard-working Americans are homeless. “I’ve felt the struggle of raising…
In addition to getting more money from their recent price hike, Netflix is also reaping a windfall thanks to President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. A new report from the Institute on Taxation…
America’s biggest banks significantly slashed their tax bills as a result of the Republican tax cuts of 2017. But workers and customers were largely excluded from that windfall. According to a recent…
Craig Forman, the president and CEO of the McClatchy newspaper chain, is overseeing hundreds of layoffs and buyouts of reporters at its newsrooms. At the same time, Forman is getting approximately $2.4…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) raised eyebrows when she called for a wealth tax instead of just taxes on income. But in fact, the proposal enjoys wide support among most Americans. According to…
If you’ve ever tipped your Doordash or Instacart driver with a card instead of cash, there’s a chance either company took a piece of that money from their driver. While the gig…
Commercial flight mechanics are being pressured by their employers to keep planes flying and suppress the reporting of potential safety issues. That’s according to an eight-month-long investigation by CBS News published on…
Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) want to regulate corporate buybacks of stock, saying they unfairly enrich executives at the expense of workers. In a recent op-ed for the…