It’s impossible for working people not to feel the squeeze on their wallets as the price of practically everything from food to gas to medicine keeps rising. It feels like there is no end in sight. This is the biggest surge in inflation in 40 years, with a 7.5%...
Students graduating today face multiple threats to their futures. Besides climate catastrophe, COVID and the threat of other pandemics, we face a mountain of debt to overcome. Outstanding student loan debt today amounts to 1.7 trillion dollars and has been rising...
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, a health technology company, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud investors and wire fraud. While we can all be happy that Holmes was caught in the act and has fallen from her perch of wealth and power, we should...
On Tuesday, December 7th, 1,400 workers at Kellogg’s cereal plants in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and Tennessee rejected a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract and voted to continue their strike which started on October 5th. The workers, who are...
Recent U.S. Labor Department statistics have shown that there has been inflation of 6.2% in the last year in the United States. This is the highest annual rate of inflation in the United States since 1990! Essential items such as gas, food, and clothes are all...
