The governor of New York is putting Wall Street insiders in charge of his state’s economic recovery.
Economy & Labor
As Spectrum workers continue a third year of striking, they are also demanding publicly owned telecommunications.
The Senate’s unanimously approved historic emergency relief package includes a large corporate bailout fund.
The package establishes a $4.5 trillion fund to bail out large corporations with little to no enforceable restrictions.
The bill also bans companies owned by Vice President Mike Pence or members of Congress from receiving stimulus funds.
A one-time 3 percent wealth tax on the world’s richest 10 percent could raise $9 trillion toward economic recovery.
Trump’s claim that this will end by Easter cannot rationally exist in the same universe as the $2 trillion aid package.
Grocery workers are working for us at considerable personal risk; we need to act now to protect them.
Republicans failed to pass a $1.8 trillion stimulus package Democrats condemned as a massive bailout for corporations.
In the face of excessive capital accumulation, war and repression have become profit centers for the capitalist class.