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Report: Borrowers Will Lose $85 Billion Yearly If Student Loan Payments Resume
Canceling student debt could add over $173 billion to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product in the first year alone.
Buffalo Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form First-Ever Starbucks Union
Workers at the Elmwood location in Buffalo voted 19 to 8 to form a union.
Museum to Melt Down Lee Statue That Inspired “Unite the Right” Violence in 2017
The new art, the museum's executive director said, will "allow Charlottesville to contend with its racist past.”
Calls for Boycott Grow After Kellogg Says It’s Permanently Replacing Strikers
Workers have said they have to work over 80 hours a week with little room to receive raises for newer employees.
Former Trump Aide Mark Meadows Sues to Block Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas
The lawsuit appears to be a delay tactic, one member of the January 6 select committee suggested.
Billionaire Used Massive Oil Spill to Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years
Phyllis Taylor’s company is responsible for the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history.
Senate Votes Against Biden Vaccine-or-Test Mandate, Thanks to Manchin and Tester
The Republican-led repeal push comes amid the rapid spread of the COVID-19 variant Omicron.
Fuel-Contaminated Water From Aging Navy Facility Sickens Pearl Harbor Families
Hawaii Congressman Kaialii Kahele called the recurring contamination a “crisis of astronomical proportions.”
Warren Slams Hertz for Raising Prices 147 Percent While Pursuing $2B in Buybacks
The company paid out about $19 million in bonuses to executives surrounding its bankruptcy.
California to Become Abortion Sanctuary If SCOTUS Upends “Roe” Protections
“We'll be a sanctuary” for abortion for the rest of the country, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said.