Economy

(Informed Comment) – While Trump’s xenophobic and protectionist agenda, thankfully often blocked by the courts, has received the lion’s share of media attention, his henchmen have enacted a whole series of game changing initiatives in the area of federal regulation. Deregulating such domestic concerns as transportation, occupational health and safety, the environment is hardly new. […]

Employment

Renewable Energy Employed 11 Million People last Year, 8% Growth Forecast

Clean Energy Wire

In the US, “The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that wind turbine technician jobs will be the second-fastest-growing occupation through 2026

Donald Trump

Trump’s incessant Talk of Mexico Tariffs is about White Nationalism, not Trade

Foreign Policy in Focus

By Laura Carlsen | – (FPIF) – There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations under international law. Donald Trump has once again torpedoed the U.S. relationship with Mexico — its third-largest trade partner, closest neighbor and, actually, an ally — by announcing his decision […]

Neoliberalism

How Neoliberalism & Privatization are Driving our Crises, from Guatemala to Moscow

John Buell

To the corporate media, history goes back only as far as yesterday. Thus the media portray the chaos and violence in Central America as though this is just a case of stuff happens. Or all of a sudden millions decided to come north in search of a better life. And these exculpatory views survived even […]

Employment

Is Trump’s trade war saving American jobs – or killing them?

The Conversation

by Jeffrey Kucik | – With the U.S.-China trade war intensifying, there is a lot of talk about whether tariffs save American jobs – as President Donald Trump claims – or destroy them. On May 14, for example, Trump said his tariffs helped save the U.S. steel industry. Whether or not that’s true, many economists […]

Inequality

The Reality for the Middle Classes behind the supposedly “Surging” U.S. Economy

Inequality.org

The black unemployment rate remains more than twice as high as the rate for whites and it has increased from 6.5% in April 2018

Democratic Socialism

The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism

Jim Hightower

The policies they’re attacking are enormously popular with America’s workaday majority

Democratic Socialism

The World’s Happiest People Already have a Green New Deal, and they Love It

George Lakey

All the Nordics have found that their focus on climate coinciding with growth in the common good

Plutocracy

It’s the Corporations, Stupid. Russia Collusion was never the Real Scandal

Peter Certo

Arm in arm with the private prison industry, they’ve loosened federal restraints on private detention facilities