The IMF surcharge policy is exploitative and harms indebted nations while contradicting the fund's mission. CEPR study shows IMF surcharges: ✖️ Harm to countries in crisis ✖️ Violation of IMF's own charter ✖️ No incentive for early repayment i.mtr.cool/dspnggpvdz

BREAKING: No taxes on tips ⁉️ Sounds good, but who really benefits? Spoiler: Not the workers who need it most. Let’s focus on raising the federal minimum wage instead. ✍️ CEPR's Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 talks to The Progressive. #MinimumWage #WorkerRights i.mtr.cool/sbnfmbgsuo

⚠️Tipped workers deserve more than empty promises. Instead of tax gimmicks, the US should implement *at least* a $15 federal minimum wage and eradicate our deeply unfair two-tiered wage system once and for all. #TipCredit i.mtr.cool/bnljzqyjfw

Over the next decade, Kenya will pay the IMF around $174 MILLION in #surcharges alone. The reality is undeniable: multilateral lending hasn’t helped countries break free of the #debt traps they face. Read more from Manasi Karthik: i.mtr.cool/qzprjqhqzd

👉 IMF surcharges are crippling countries in crisis. Research shows the top 5 borrowers will pay $8.5 BILLION in surcharges from 2024-2028 alone — money they desperately needed. #StopIMFSurcharges 🔗 bit.ly/3yLJCxK

🇦🇫 August marked the third anniversary of the US withdrawal from #Afghanistan.  Many Afghans are calling on the international community to lift banking restrictions and alleviate the dire #humanitarian situation.  👇More in our latest #SanctionsWatch: cepr.net/cepr-sanctions…

.President Biden, you ended the US' "forever war" in Afghanistan. Now help prevent Afghans' 'forever suffering' by unfreezing their central bank assets & releasing reserves from the Afghan Fund. This policy hurts civlians more than the gov't. #UnfreezeAfghanistan i.mtr.cool/pjjkmdbevm

Some say card checks aren't democratic. Oh, really? ✅ Workers openly show support for a collective undertaking ✅ Majority decides ✅ Quick, transparent process What IS undemocratic is bosses' interference in workers' efforts to organize a union. More: i.mtr.cool/kqnbevfjqv

🇨🇺 Nearly 50 members of Congress call to end Cuba’s Terror designation, including Congressman Greg Casar, Rep. Barbara Lee, and Rep. Nydia Velazquez.  #LetCubaLive 👇More in our new #SanctionsWatch:  cepr.net/cepr-sanctions…

NEW: Card check, an easy way to certify unions, isn't the law of the land throughout the US. Now, #Project2025 wants to ban it completely, helping private sector bosses block unions. If successful, workers lose a simple path to unionize. #LaborDay More: i.mtr.cool/zsgzzfmdtn

💸 Eliminating federal taxes on tips might seem like a win for workers, but it’s more of a gimmick than a solution. Many tipped workers wouldn’t see any benefit since they don’t earn enough to owe income taxes. #FairWages #LaborDay Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 explains: i.mtr.cool/smtuqprpct

🇵🇸 Polio returns to #Gaza after 25 years.  Aid groups like Save the Children International and Oxfam International blame Israeli restrictions on supplies, mass displacements, and destroyed infrastructure. Details in our #SanctionsWatch:  cepr.net/cepr-sanctions…

Here's one way IMF could help Ukraine: Ending the counterproductive surcharge fees that will force Ukraine to pay billions in the next 10 years, even as it defends its territory from Russian aggression and is appealing for more US assistance. It's time to #StopIMFSurcharges

🌎 40 legal groups and 200 lawyers, like National Lawyers Guild, IADL Law, and The CCR, are calling for an end to unilateral economic #sanctions.  In a letter to President Biden, the group describes the sanctions as clear violations of international law. Read more below in our #SanctionsWatch:

Join us on Sept 10 @ 11am EDT for a vital webinar on ending IMF surcharges. Learn how these policies harm developing countries & what we can do. i.mtr.cool/fktvhyaxos

✅Extreme #inequality is not the result of a free market—it is a result of how the #government has structured the market. This is clear to anyone but the country's leading newspapers like the The Washington Post, writes Dean Baker: i.mtr.cool/rfzqrtejfh

The media are determined to tell everyone the #economy is awful in spite of: ✔️The longest stretch of low #unemployment in more than 70 yrs ✔️Healthy real wage growth ✔️Record levels of job satisfaction 👇More from Dean Baker: i.mtr.cool/qpshzbguxj

As Blinken visits Haiti and talks about strengthening the local police, a reminder: the money the US has spent on the Kenya MSS over just the last few months far surpasses the annual budget of the Haitian police.

After Steward sold its physician group to a #PrivateEquity firm for $245M, it is now shuttering Ohio hospitals and laying off 944 people.   🚩Classic move: #greed-driven execs, backed by #PE, corporate greed over patient care. i.mtr.cool/gctnliwmqq

Secret ballots for unions? Almost as shady as they sound. ✅ Card checks: Quick, open, and worker-led. ❌ Secret ballots: Closed, loooong process that gives bosses more time to sabotage workers. Hayley Brown and Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 break it down: i.mtr.cool/gzklxdoxhr