Tenants Launch US’s First Ever Rent Debt Strike Against Corporate Landlord
Nine tenants organized by the Debt Collective are refusing to pay back rent, hoping to inspire others to do the same.
Les Leopold: The Rust Belt Survey
The survey was designed by the Center for Working Class Politics, the Rutgers LEARN labor education program, and the Labor Institute, where I work.
Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them
After filling the city-funded rooms, the nonprofit was told to let them empty out — even as the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the…
Don’t Let Wall Street Gamble with Your Golden Years
Private equity firms want your retirement savings — and the Trump administration wants to help them.
Working-Class Americans Are Hurting—And Traditional Statistics Aren’t Showing How Much
Recent data show the costs of groceries, healthcare, and electricity have all been rising faster than overall inflation.
Fox Host Apologizes for Saying Unhoused People Should Receive ‘Lethal Injection’
Despite his public call to “just kill” unhoused people, Brian Kilmeade continues to host “Fox & Friends.”
‘Pushing People into a Really Bad System Will End Really Badly’
Living on the Streets in the Age of Trump.
Voters Again Shown to Prefer Populism Over Neoliberal ‘Abundance’ Agenda in New Research
"Majorities of Democrats and independents and two in five Republicans believe the outsized power of billionaires and corporations in our government is a bigger problem than red tape and bureaucracy."
We Know How to Reduce Poverty — So Why Aren’t We Doing It?
As Congress rolls back food aid, California families are facing increasing hardship.
Meet the Low-Wage 100
At the 100 largest low-wage corporations, CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared since 2019 while median worker pay has lagged behind U.S. inflation.
How City-Owned Grocery Stores Can Tackle Food Insecurity
As private grocers abandon low-income neighborhoods, Zohran Mamdani’s public ownership proposal offers a solution to market failures.
A Textbook Case of How Tax Policy Fuels Obscene Wealth Accumulation
Jeff Bezos is paying only peanuts in tax on the profits he’s making selling off his Amazon shares.
The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Subsidize the Billionaire Private Jet Class
A new study finds that the U.S. is the largest source of private jet emissions.
The Chris Hedges Report: Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (w/ Rob Larson)
The rich are severed from the rest of us — materially through gated communities and jets, and psychologically through the bubbles they exist within.