Economy / Business - OtherWords

America Needs a Long-Term Care Program for Seniors

By 2035, seniors will outnumber children. A new plan in Washington state shows how we can care for them — and for their caretakers.

The company plans to use AI ordering to gather data on your “movement patterns” and license plate number.

As far back as 1982, fossil fuel executives knew they were trading a few decades of profits for the entire future of the planet.

It’s not individual behavior that drives the racial wealth divide — it’s a system that many folks pretend doesn’t exist.

When powerful people complain about “purity tests,” it means they’re being pressured in ways they don’t like.

Privately, CEOs are gushing about the possibility of replacing their workforces with robots.

Racial discrimination is illegal even if it’s religiously based. Why should LGBTQ discrimination be any different?

The Green New Deal is the best plan yet to push wages up and pollution down.

If the minimum wage had kept up with Wall Street bonuses, it would be worth $33 today, instead of just $7.25.

Big ag companies killed family farms and polluted our water, while politicians blamed our immigrant neighbors. Let’s not turn on each other again.