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American Rescue Plan Funds Should Support An Equitable Recovery For Workers

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American Rescue Plan Funds Should Support An Equitable Recovery For Workers

By Asha Banerjee, Jaimie Worker, and Dave Kamper, EPI Working Economics Blog Last month, we at the Economic Policy Institute submitted a public comment on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s guidance regarding the . These funds are part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act’s resources for state and local communities to respond to the public health and economic crisis. […]

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Luke Harris on Critical Race Theory, Cindy Cohn on Pegasus Spyware

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  Little Rock, 1957 This week on CounterSpin: You’ve almost certainly seen the documentary photographs; they’re emblematic: African Americans trying to walk to school or sit at a drugstore soda fountain, while white people yell and spit and scream at them. Should no one see those pictures or learn those stories—because some of them have […]

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AI Wants Your Job: Avoiding The Robot Job-Killing Apocalypse

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AI Wants Your Job: Avoiding The Robot Job-Killing Apocalypse

AI: Automation is currently displacing millions of workers. By John Feffer Originally in Tom Dispatch My wife and I were recently driving in Virginia, amazed yet again that the GPS technology on our phones could guide us through a thicket of highways, around road accidents, and toward our precise destination. The artificial intelligence (AI) behind the […]

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Private Equity – Rein It In Before It Destroys More Jobs

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Private Equity – Rein It In Before It Destroys More Jobs

The Hufcor plant in Janesville, Wisconsin was profitable before investors gobbled it up. Now it’s the latest highway robbery by private equity. By Elisa McCartin | July 21, 2021 This spring, 166 workers in Janesville, Wisconsin awoke to a nightmare. OpenGate Capital, the private equity firm that owns their employer, Hufcor, announced it was moving […]

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Bianca Nozaki-Nasser on Anti-Asian Bias

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    New York Times (6/22/21) This week on CounterSpin: A June New York Times article about female Asian-American and Pacific Islander golfers reacting to the recent spike in anti-Asian bias began inauspiciously: “Players of Asian descent have won eight of the past 10 Women’s PGA championships, but there is nothing cookie cutter about the […]

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Billionaire Pandemic Wealth Gain Could Pay For Biden’s American Families Plan

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Billionaire Pandemic Wealth Gain Could Pay For Biden’s American Families Plan

U.S. billionaires have reaped $1.8 trillion in wealth gains since March 2020. July 14, 2021By Chuck Collins Originally in Inequality.org Over the last 16 months, since the formal beginning of the pandemic lockdown, the combined wealth of 713 U.S. billionaires has surged by $1.8 trillion, a gain of almost 60 percent.  The total combined wealth […]

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William Dodge on Nestle Slave Labor, Michael Ratner on Donald Rumsfeld

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    Child chocolate worker in the Ivory Coast (Fortune, 3/1/16) (photo: Benjamin Lowy) This week on CounterSpin: Nestle CEO Mark Schneider told investors in February that “2020 was a year of hardship for so many,” yet he was “inspired by the way it has brought all of us closer together.” And also by an […]

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Andrew Perez on the Filibuster

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James Stewart filibustering in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. This week on CounterSpin: NBC News recently reported that “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said…he is ‘100%’ focused ‘on stopping’ President Joe Biden’s administration.” The statement is remarkable for the painful mockery it makes of Democrats’ and corporate media’s stubborn insistence that the most important value […]

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Jaisal Noor on Worker Co-Ops, Duncan Meisel on Fossil Fuel Greenwashing

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    ChiFresh Kitchen, a worker co-op This week on CounterSpin: In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, employees of Whole Foods—owned by the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos—were asked to give their own accrued paid sick days to co-workers who had either contracted the virus or been forced to take time out of work.  […]

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Big Corporations Shouldn’t Get Tax Breaks to Create Jobs

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Big Corporations Shouldn’t Get Tax Breaks to Create Jobs

By Jim Hightower — Governors and mayors insist that giving our tax dollars to corporations in form of big tax breaks to lure them to move to our cities is good public policy. The corporations create jobs, those workers pay taxes, and — voila! — the giveaway pays for itself! Does it really work that […]

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