by Tom Conway | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Inequality
Google is famous for workplaces called “campuses” where employees get enormous paychecks and enjoy all the perks of fancy private college campuses, including pingpong tables and other entertainment. But other workers who produce for Google across the country are not...
by Chuck Collins | Sep 6, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality
Presidential candidates should take a pledge: The middle class should not pay one dollar more in new taxes until the super-rich pay their fair share. Already candidates are outlining ambitious programs to improve health care, combat climate change, and address the...
by Tom Conway | Sep 3, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Inequality, Protest
Giant balloons apparently terrify Peter Robb, who is Donald Trump’s hand-picked general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Big balloons shaped like rats, cats, pigs and cockroaches so frighten Robb that he has used his office to take extraordinary...
by Tom Conway | Aug 27, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Future of Work, Inequality
Jamie Dimon and friends. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons / Financial Times / cc Gordon Gekko found religion last week. Gekko, the lead in the 1987 movie “Wall Street” about capitalism gone corruptly amok, is most famous for his phrase: “greed is good.” Last Monday,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 23, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality
South of the border, here in the United States, we Americans tend not to pay much attention to our northern neighbors. Entire election cycles can come and go without anyone running for national office saying anything significant about Canada. But that’s all changing....
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health, Inequality, Opioid Crisis
Last week didn’t go so well for the Mexican druglord Joaquín Guzmán Loera. A federal district court sentenced the notorious “El Chapo” to life in prison. The 62-year-old will almost certainly, notes the New York Times, be “spending the rest of his life behind bars.”...
