Democrats Take the First Steps to Make Biden’s Infrastructure Bill a Climate Bill
Four congressional Democrats on Friday unveiled the BUILD GREEN Infrastructure and Jobs Act, a bill that would invest $500 billion over 10 years in state, local, and tribal projects to galvanize the transition to all electric public transportation — reducing climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions and health-threatening air pollution while expanding clean mass transit and creating up to one million new jobs. Modeled […]
Biden Labor Board Strikes Barrier to Unionization of 1.5 Million Grad Students
Campus organizers are hoping that dozens of new unionization campaigns may be on the horizon nationwide following the recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision to withdraw a proposed Trump-era rule that would have barred graduate students from joining a union. During his campaign, President Joe Biden had vowed to “empower the NLRB to fulfill its intended […]
‘This Is Tax Evasion’: Richest 1% of US Households Don’t Report 21% of Their Income, Analysis Finds
A new analysis by IRS researchers and academics published Monday morning estimates that the richest 1% of U.S. households don’t report around 21% of their income, often using complex tax avoidance strategies that allow them to outmaneuver the federal government’s increasingly rare audits of the wealthy. Led by two IRS researchers as well as Daniel Reck of the London […]
Senate GOPers Use Gun Violence Hearing To Denigrate BLM Protests
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday held the first in a series of hearings aimed at mitigating gun violence in the wake of two recent mass shootings within one week — first in Atlanta, Georgia, and then in Boulder, Colorado. The hearing, which was scheduled before a suspected gunman opened fire in a Colorado supermarket, […]
Tracking the Invisible Killer
MILLIE CORDER DIDN’T know why there was so much cancer in her family. Her daughter, Cheryl, was only 27 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and 34 when the disease killed her in 2002. By that time, Millie’s husband, Chuck, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He recovered, only to develop skin cancer in 2005. […]
Federal Courts Help Biden Quickly Dismantle Trump’s Climate and Environmental Legacy
As the Biden administration begins the daunting job of rebuilding U.S. climate policy, it has gotten help from an unexpected, and perhaps unlikely, source—the federal courts. In Biden’s first few weeks in office, federal judges scrapped the Trump administration’s weak power plant pollution regulation, its rule limiting science in environmental decision-making and a decision opening […]
Amazon Is Paying Consultants Nearly $10,000 a Day to Obstruct Union Drive
Martin Levitt — who renounced his 20-year career as an anti-union consultant to write a landmark memoir, Confessions of a Union Buster, in the early 1990s — famously said that union busting is a “dirty business” which is “populated by bullies and built on deceit. A campaign against a union is an assault on individuals and […]
6 Things You Should Know About George Floyd’s Murder Trial
The trial of former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin, charged in the death of George Floyd, was set to begin on March 8. Floyd, a Black man, was killed in South Minneapolis after Chauvin kneeled on the back of his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. A video recording of Floyd’s death received international […]
Biden’s War Policy Offers Chance for Change — Or More of the Same
LESS THAN two months after taking office, most of President Joe Biden’s national security policy is under review. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is reexamining worldwide troop deployments, and the administration is taking a hard look at global counterterrorism operations. Biden’s team is also reviewing the Trump administration’s peace deal with the Taliban and the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, which […]
End Trump and Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars
On February 25, President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to drop seven 500-pound bombs on Iraqi forces in Syria, reportedly killing twenty-two people. The airstrike has predictably failed to halt rocket attacks on deeply unpopular U.S. bases in Iraq, which the Iraqi National Assembly passed a resolution to close more than a year ago. Western media reported the […]