News Analysis | Politics & Elections What Haiti Needs Is Human Rights Support — Not More Military Interventions Armed interventions don’t change the reality that many people in Haiti need to join gangs to meet their basic needs. By Cécile Accilien , Truthout March 7, 2024 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor Biden Peddles the Myth That Spending More on Weapons Is Good for the Economy The Pentagon’s annual budget is more than 20 times what the US now invests per year to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By William D. Hartung , TomDispatch February 26, 2024 Truthout
News | Education & Youth New Survey of Early Childhood Educators Finds a Sector in Crisis Child care bill languishing in Congress would cost a fraction of the $150 billion a year the US loses from tax dodgers. By Jon Queally , CommonDreams February 26, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor To Democratize Finance, We Must Take the Banks Away From the Bankers Progressive economist Gerald Epstein explains how we can build a banking system that puts people over profit. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout February 17, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor A Growing Number of Economists Are Joining the Fight to Rein In the Big Banks Big banks have captured the financial regulatory system and are driving inequality. We need to bust their club. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout February 12, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor 2024 Will See Wave of Minimum Wage Hikes — But the Impacts Won’t Be Felt Evenly Ten million US workers will see wage increases this year, but inflation has eroded our tools for reducing inequality. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout February 1, 2024 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Study: Half of Renters Paid Unaffordable Rates in 2022, a Record High Since 2001, median rents have risen by 21 percent — while renters’ incomes have only increased by 2 percent. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout January 25, 2024 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor More Than Half of Americans Don’t Have Enough Savings to Cover $1,000 Expense More than one in five Americans have no emergency savings fund set up at all. By Chris Walker , Truthout January 25, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor The Only Solution to “Wealth Supremacy” Is a Democratic Economy Our economy must center human outcomes rather than rising share prices, says social theorist and author Marjorie Kelly. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout January 21, 2024 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Bipartisan Tax Bill Offers Generous Corporate Tax Relief, Inadequate Poverty Aid A proposed bill increases the child tax credit, but fails the poorest families. Yet corporations would see a windfall. By Tyler Walicek , Truthout January 20, 2024 Truthout