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How about a Sovereign Wealth Fund for Workers? Harris needs to prove she has the guts to take on the powerful and truly protect working-class jobs and...
Workers know that when a private equity firm buys up the company at which they work or a stock buyback is announced, they are likely about to get...
Trump has promised to stick John Deere with a 200% tariff if it outsources U.S. jobs to Mexico; the Dems responded by getting a billionaire to call...
Is there any lie that Trump/Vance could tell that might turn DeWine into a former supporter?
Vance's shameless lies, and Trump’s too, are deepening the deterioration of American politics.
Really, after watching Trump’s debate meltdown, how is it possible for any sane human to believe he has the capability to improve anything at all?...
Buried in the 2020 Democratic Party platform is a little discussed line that could hold the key to reducing wanton job destruction. Will Kamala Harris...
If Harris and the Democrats don’t find a way to intervene to stop the needless mass layoffs that are happening right now, there’s a good chance...
We’re in this mess because Biden and party elites refused to listen to the vast majority of Democrats who believe he is too old for a second term....
Don't let history fool you. Trump can be destroyed, but only if those in a position of power show the courage that's needed. It’s now up to...
American workers are not stupid. They're getting fleeced and they know it. But until we rebuild large scale working-class power, it’s going to...
The president should let Deere know that they can’t continue to receive taxpayer money if they ship taxpayer-funded jobs to Mexico.
The working class isn't dumb or missing the point. Workers in this country are as perceptive as can be after experiencing what Wall Street has...
"Payoffs for layoffs have to stop," he said nearly three decades ago. And he was absolutely correct to point out the problem of rewarding...
It might be wise to stop hyping how wonderful the economy is for working people who know one thing better than any so-called expert: the economic...
The same Wall Street firms and their media cousins that want us to marvel at the shock and awe of AI, are destroying jobs the old-fashioned way –...
While financiers often talk about the wonders of financial efficiency, they know that each merger, each leveraged buyout, and each stock buyback is...
In their new book, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman write as if economic class no longer exists or matters.
The federal government awards approximately $700 billion per year in federal contracts; what if the Biden administration added one simple clause:...
Imagine what the UAW could help ignite if its well-honed technical and political skills were used to create a new organization that intervened in...
What’s to stop the chip-making giant from shoveling taxpayer grants into more stock buybacks?
It’s hard for any of us to buck the conventional wisdom that downplays mass layoffs and extols billionaires, but the Ohio Democrat is doing just...
Will the layoff victims at the Republican National Committee now have more sympathy for the workers who had their jobs destroyed by Wall Street?
Standing on a picket line, as Biden did with the UAW, is important. But that cannot be the limit of efforts to make the economy work better for...
What the Nobel Prize-winning economist and prominent columnist fails to see again and again is that many, if not most, rural mass layoffs in the last...
Building a movement to stop Wall Street’s insatiable greed starts with labor unions, like the United Auto Workers, that have shown the willingness...
There’s a very large and powerful movement to be built if we are willing to take on corporate bosses and the financial sector.
Private equity giants want you to think they can make life better for workers. Not so fast.
As we enter Black History Month, it is important to understand how management race science was developed to divide and conquer the workforce as it...
There is one real solution to creating a modicum of job stability: Taming Wall Street’s greed.
You’d think that Boeing would not compromise on safety, given that one small production error or software glitch could down a plane worth hundreds...
The corporate media and all too many politicians are blaming working people for the rise of Trump and MAGA. Yet, if we open our (lying) eyes a bit...
It turns out that what’s the matter with Kansas or West Virginia is the wrong question. What’s the matter with the Democrats is what we should be...
Creating a sane healthcare system will depend on building a massive common movement to free our economy from Wall Street’s wealth extraction.
Is it possible to build a political party that truly speaks to the needs of working people in an era of runaway inequality and incessant mass layoffs?
For the first time in his life, the man who opposes any "lords and peasants sort of thing" may be learning a lesson in labor solidarity.
You might think that GM would be worrying more about the confidence of consumers, not hedge funds. But apparently not.
They can't try to have it both ways indefinitely. If they really helped working people meet the economic challenges facing them, the party would...