Economy / Business - OtherWords

Let’s Trash Junk Fees

President Biden is cracking down on deceptive fees that cost American consumers tens of billions of dollars a year.

Understaffed trucking companies are trying to roll back child labor rules. Why not just stop discriminating against women?

We don’t need more fear, anger, or violence. We need public investment that helps hard working people get by.

The billion-dollar company profits off pushing workers like me to our physical limits — only to ignore us when we’re hurt on the job.

Hardship is far more widespread than official numbers reflect. But we’ve also seen firsthand how to address it.

Dollar General profits from paying poverty wages and selling unsafe food to poor people. It feeds off the very inequality it’s accelerating.

A resurgent labor movement has flipped the script on their bosses.

Oklahoma City Thunder owner Clayton Bennett is the kind of outlaw Woody Guthrie warned about — one who will “rob you with a fountain pen.”

Young people are filing lawsuits for climate damage — and some are even winning.

A mounting body of evidence finds the risks associated with cannabis smoke and tobacco smoke are far from equal.