Corporations fault unemployment benefits for labor shortages, but critics argue “starvation wages” are to blame.
Economy & Labor
Unemployment due to voluntary quits is still extraordinarily low.
Food worker scarcity “is not a labor shortage problem; it’s a wage shortage problem,” said the head of One Fair Wage.
The richest 1 percent of U.S. households account for roughly 36 percent of all unpaid federal income tax.
Amazon wants to exert the same level of control over contracted drivers “without bearing the costs” say critics.
Tax dodging by the top 1 percent of earners could be responsible for nearly $5 trillion of lost tax revenue.
Many of these grassroots responses are taking place in communities that have been hit hardest by the pandemic.
The PRO Act would limit the ability of corporate bullies like Amazon to intimidate, mislead and bamboozle employees.
The lawsuits from 16 GOP-led states are more likely to score political points than prevail in court.
India reported a global record of over 400,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day Friday.