Organizers and Community Groups in Jackson Turn to Mutual Aid Amid Water Crisis
Jackson, Mississippi residents are now without safe drinking water after flooding last week. It has been years since infrastructural neglect. “We’re always on alert, and we’re always in the community,” said Efren Nuñez, an organizer with the Jackson-based Immigrant Alliance for Justice & Equalitydistributing water donations to the city. “They call us right away when […]
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Railroad Workers Appear Ready to Strike After Rejecting Contract Recommendations
Railroad unions continue their slow creep along the path to a settlement — or strike — in contract negotiations covering 115,000 workers. The President Biden convened the Presidential Emergency Board to make recommendations for a settlement. Many rail workers claim they have failed and are willing to strike to win more. The PEB recommended 22 […]
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Millions of Pakistanis Are Facing a “Climate Dystopia” Amid Historic Floods
After weeks of relentless rains, a new cycle of flash floods devastated parts of Pakistan over the weekend, raising the country’s monsoon death toll to 1,136 since June, according to the country’s National Disaster Management Authority. Nearly 1,000,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged. over 33 million Pakistanis affected– displaced families sleeping on roads in […]
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Truss as Britain’s PM puts UK’s net-zero ambitions at risk
The UK’s ambition to become net-zero by 2050 is looking shaky, as the energy crisis pushes prime ministerial hopeful Liz Truss towards policies that will end with Britain relying on fossil-fuels for years to come. The ongoing leadership contest, which will most likely end next week withTruss being Britain’s prime minister, has seen alarming policies […]
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Schools Should Prioritize Mental Health Resources — for Both Students and Staff
Alicia Biros, a 42-year-old math teacher at Rhode Island’s North Kingstown High School, died by suicide in May after struggling with depression. Her death rocked the small community of North Kingstown with a population just below 28,000 at the last census. Months later, students and educators are still trying to comprehend and accept the loss. […]
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Trump’s Special Master Request May Be Bid to Delay Investigation Beyond Midterms
Before the August 8 search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion and seizure of “top secret” documents, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart found probable cause to believe that evidence of three different federal crimes would be found there. On August 22, Trump filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida […]
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The UK is an active member of an international anti-corruption body. It may not be for much longer.
The UK has been thrown into chaos by a third failure to follow the rules. ‘This is an open government emergency.’ It was April 2021 and I was urging groups to get involved in the UK’s fifth bi-annual anti-corruption plan. My call was not exaggerated. It felt critical. An ethics adviser had resigned following the […]
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2 Red States Are Taxing Student Debt Relief — But Didn’t Tax PPP Forgiveness
Officials in two states with Republican-dominated legislatures announced this week that they’re planning to tax relief that borrowers get from President Joe Biden’s student debt cancellation plan — even though the same states didn’t tax the billions of dollars of loan forgiveness given to corporations and business owners under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). North […]
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Trump Brags Mar-a-Lago Search Improved His Polling — It Didn’t
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump claimed that the Mar-a-Lago search warrant that was executed last month had helped his polling numbers. This statement is clearly false. The immediate aftermath of the FBI search to retrieve documents that Trump improperly removed from the White House, the former president’s numbers did improve among Republican respondents in […]
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Economy Adds 315,000 Jobs in August, But Unemployment Ticks Upward
August’s employment report was mixed. While the establishment survey showed a strong increase of 315,000 jobs, the household survey showed an increase in the unemployment rate by 0.2 percentage point to 3.7 per cent. The picture presented by both surveys is a bit more complicated. In the case for the establishment survey, the two previous […]
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