Truthout
Economy & Labor
The First 2020 Presidential Debate Needs to Address Wealth and Income Inequality
In these days of despair over democracy, we desperately need to discuss how economically unequal we have become.
Amid COVID and Wildfires, Farmworkers Have Been Pushed to the Brink
This administration has declared farmworkers essential but failed to provide them adequate work conditions and pay.
GOP Lawsuit to Repeal the ACA Would Give Huge Tax Cut to the Richest Americans
The top 0.1 percent would see a tax cut of nearly $200,000 per year if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the repeal.
Voters Want to Use Climate Change Policies to Rebuild the Economy After COVID
A new poll shows that voters want job training for workers who left the fossil fuel industry as well as a carbon tax.
Insufficient COVID Protections for Postal Workers Pose Threat to Mail-In Voting
Postal Service employees are not being tested nor receiving temperature checks despite facing obvious health risks.
Millions of Children Go Hungry as Mitch McConnell Blocks Stimulus Bill
Desperately needed emergency food assistance would expire on September 30 under McConnell’s “skinny” stimulus bill.
Kenyon College Students Are Organizing the First Campus-Wide Undergraduate Union
Disruption in campus employment due to COVID-19 sparked new urgency for students’ ability to bargain.
Undocumented Farmworkers Face Triple Threat as West Coast Burns
Farmworkers continue working amid a pandemic and climate-fueled fires.
Rural and Native Communities Are Hard Hit by COVID-Era Food Insecurity
The pandemic has caused tremendous suffering for rural and Native people as well as youth and people with disabilities.
GOP Proposes Massive Coal Industry Handout, No Direct COVID Relief Payments
Senate Republicans call for $161 million handout to coal industry after nixing COVID relief for struggling Americans.