Economy / Business - OtherWords

Like it or Not, Billionaires Are on Your Gift List This Holiday Season

In this season of giving, tax laws designed to support charities may actually protect billionaire wealth — at our expense.

Give a gift to the starving workers who made your favorite holiday sweater — tell their employers to pay up.

For generations, poor people have relied on each other to keep a roof over their heads. But in the world’s wealthiest country, we need more.

Can you squeeze blood from a turnip? Some big corporations want to try — and you’re the turnip.

As a struggling single mom, I’ve learned that poverty is a policy choice, not a personal one. We can reverse it — if we choose.

Conservative lawmakers calling for cuts should start with the agency that can’t account for $1.9 trillion — not the programs Americans rely on.

President Biden needs to stand up for federal call center workers like my colleagues and me.

We shouldn’t let far-right politicians strip our education system down to what corporate employers demand.

Man of the people? The new House Speaker just appointed Big Pharma’s top lobbyist as his policy director.

The watershed agreements America’s auto workers won could inspire working people here and abroad. And that’s by design.