The Red Cross estimates that 70% to 90% of those arrested and detained in Iraq after the 2003 American invasion were not guilty of any crimes, writes Dr. Maha Hilal in TomDispatch.
tomdispatch.com/carceral-imper…

Noncompete agreements remove what is often the only tool non-union workers have for improving their conditions: Threatening to quit and get a job elsewhere.

A new rule from the FTC will change that for millions of workers. Heidi Shierholz for Inequality.org: inequality.org/research/looki…

A recent report by the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans For Tax Fairness shows that while Darden was fighting minimum wage increases for their servers, they paid their top five executives a total of $120 million between 2018 and 2022, writes Helen H. Abraha of ROC-DC. commondreams.org/opinion/restau…

The battle over fair pay for restaurant workers is heating up as organizers in a growing number of states work to put minimum wage hikes for tipped workers on November ballots — and brace for fierce backlash.

Helen H. Abraha of ROC United:
otherwords.org/restaurant-wor…

Transportation is one of the only major sectors where emissions are still rising, with cars and trucks producing 80% of the pollution.

Despite politicians’ insistence to keep expanding highways, public transportation is a safer, more powerful investment. otherwords.org/fund-transit-n…

Stock buybacks inflate stock prices and enrich shareholders. US companies are expected to spend nearly $1 trillion on them this year.

The practice used to be illegal and considered market manipulation. I introduced the Reward Work Act to ban them again.

While some allies of the ultra-wealthy push a 'flat tax' that would deliver the most savings to those at the top, the majority of Americans still want to tax the rich more.

Sam Pizzigati in Inequality.org: inequality.org/great-divide/a…

Post-WWII America enjoyed great prosperity — largely due to a far more equitable tax code.

If we want to get serious about fighting inequality, we can start by looking at our past. William Rice & Zachary Tashman of Americans For Tax Fairness in Inequality.org: inequality.org/research/our-t…

Dozens of labor unions signed a letter last week in solidarity with students protesting at Columbia.

'The right to protest is necessary for every struggle, and the direct attack on this right is an attack on labor as well.' Julia Conley in Common Dreams:
commondreams.org/news/unions-co…

Calls for schools to divest from war can be incredibly effective with the right targets, Phyllis Bennis discussed with 𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗 in Guardian US.

“Try to answer to the question: if it succeeds, what is this action going to do to stop the genocide?'
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

This Arab American Heritage Month has been dampened by the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the reverberations of Islamophobia here at home.

But there is hope, writes policy analyst Farrah Hassen, in the powerful resistance of Arab American youth.
otherwords.org/a-bittersweet-…

In 2023, the average American paid more to Pentagon contractors like Lockheed Martin than they pay for a month's rent.

This Thursday, join Lindsay Koshgarian and Alliyah Lusuegro of National Priorities Project to learn where your taxes went — and what else they could fund: ips-dc.org/events/briefin…

Tax filing corporations cost the average customer $150 — money that could go to other necessities. With overwhelming support for modernizing the IRS, we must continue to press our lawmakers for a more equitable tax system.

Portia Allen-Kyle in Inequality.org: inequality.org/research/irs-d…

Earlier this week I stood with National Homelessness Law Center in front of #SCOTUS in the fight for safe housing.

SCOTUS should affirm the dignity and protection of the homeless so that every human being is treated with inherent worth and dignity, including and especially the poor.