News | Economy & Labor Silicon Valley Bank Collapses in Largest Failure Since 2008 Crisis The bank's financial woes rattled Wall Street and left depositors scrambling to withdraw their money. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams March 11, 2023 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Garment Workers Take on Wall Street and Wage Theft A new campaign targets brands that are spending on stock buybacks instead of compensating workers for lost wages. By Jacob Horwitz , Inequality.org March 4, 2023 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor Tax Policy Is Helping Wall Street Gobble Up Single-Family Homes Wall Street investors have concentrated their purchases of entry-level and single-family homes in communities of color. By Janine Jackson , FAIR December 25, 2022 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Wall Street Shrugs Off Biden and Reaffirms Commitment to Saudi Monarchy Even as President Biden questions the U.S.-Saudi alliance, big banks in the U.S. are cozying up to the crown prince. By Sam Knight , Truthout October 27, 2022 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Wall Street Lobbyists Admit Big Banks Don’t Plan to Honor Their Climate Pledges Big bank lobbyists have openly told regulators that Wall Street’s disingenuous climate pledges were made to be broken. By Sam Knight , Truthout October 12, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections AOC Rebukes Republican Who Bragged About Staffer Leaving to Work for Wall Street Rep. Trey Hollingsworth boasted that one of his top aides would be leaving Congress to join Bank of America. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams September 23, 2022 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Wall Street Giants Set to Smash Profit Records Off Energy Crisis, Global Hunger Wall Street banks have not just benefited from the commodity price increases — they’ve actively helped fuel them. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams September 9, 2022 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Ilhan Omar Introduces Bill to Guarantee Housing as a Human Right The bill would repeal the Faircloth Amendment, which places a hard limit on the amount of public housing in the country. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout March 25, 2022 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor If Minimum Wage Kept Up With Wall Street Bonuses, It Would Be $61.75 an Hour Wall Street bonuses have surged over 1,700 percent of what they were in 1985. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout March 24, 2022 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor The Federal Reserve Has Fueled Wall Street at the Expense of the Rest of Us The Federal Reserve stokes inequality, says Christopher Leonard, author of the new book “The Lords of Easy Money.” By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh , DemocracyNow! January 27, 2022 Truthout