July 4th 2022
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Today's headline is that Jeff Bezos visited space. Of the $5.5 million dollar expenditure, he commented the following: "[I] want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all this. So seriously, for every Amazon customer out...
A shameful attack on American democracy dominated the headlines yesterday, as hundreds of right-wing protesters-turned-rioters, incited by President Trump, stormed the U.S. Capitol Building in an effort to prevent lawmakers from certifying the results of the 2020...
President Trump’s recent executive orders regarding unemployment insurance and payroll taxation have had little impact so far, The Washington Post reports. Among all fifty states, only Arizona has begun distributing the additional $300 per week unemployment...
This week, Reveal completed their investigative series “American Rehab” that follows and describes how thousands of individuals receive “work therapy” instead of addiction treatment after entering drug rehabilitation centers. The series documents how these...
Activists in Northwest Arkansas are protesting Tyson’s failure to protect workers from COVID-19, Facing South chronicles. Protesters marched in April and May at Tyson’s Berry Street poultry processing plant in Springdale and the nearby Chick-N-Quick plant in Rogers...
Working-class candidates are making personal and financial sacrifices to run for office, despite campaign guidelines specifically intended to make it easier for them to quit their jobs and run. A 2002 Federal Election Commission rule permits candidates running in a...
Michael Grabell's New Yorker piece on Case Farms' poultry plants is a must-read. Much of it will be depressingly familiar: horrid safety and health conditions ("since 2010, more than seven hundred and fifty processing workers have suffered amputations"); repeated...