AOC Says Reversing Trump Tax Cuts Could Fund Cancelation of All Student Debt
In the wake of the White House’s announcement that the Biden administration Cancelling upto $20,000Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), reminded students that Congress could fund a plan for cancelling all student debt by simply undoing it unpopularRepublicans approved 2017 tax cuts for corporations, and wealthy that were very costly. In an Instagram postOcasio-Cortez encouraged her […]
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Refuting Big Lie the Left Tells About Pro-Lifers
“It’s … hard to take seriously Republicans’ passionate pleas for this body to defend the existence of an unborn fetus when they seem to care so little about many of the existential threats that are posed to every American after they are born. … It seems that after birth, life matters a little bit less to some […]
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Dark Money Groups Are Scheming to Bring Down Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan
Republican attorneys general, corporate advocacy groups, and other organizations are looking for ways to sue Biden over its new plan to cancel $10,000 in federal student loans debt for most borrowers. The hope is that the conservative-rich U.S. judiciary will block the executive action to deny desperately needed relief to around 40,000,000 people. Shortly after […]
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UPS Workers Say Union Activists Are Being Targeted Amid Contract Negotiations
UPS Teamsters organized rallies in the country with thousands workers during the first week August. kick off their 2023 contract campaign. UPS workers will be fighting to meet their demands from now until July next year, when the current contract expires. They also plan to strike if they’re not met. Among those demands are: air-conditioned […]
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Climate-Fueled Wildfires Are Depleting the Ozone Layer, New Study Shows
Scientists were stunned when bushfires spread across Australia in the early 2020s. generated their own extreme weather patterns, including thunderstorms — and a study published last Thursday revealed the blazes had an even greater climate impact than previously known. University of Exeter in England found that aerosols from the smoke created by the fires caused […]
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Operator of Damaged Ukraine Nuclear Station Issues Stark Warning Amid Shelling
Ukraine’s state-run energy operator warned Saturday that “there are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive substances” from the country’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as shelling in the Russian-occupied area continues, despite international pleas for a ceasefire. “As a result of periodic shelling, the infrastructure of the station has been damaged,” Energoatom said in […]
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Teachers Are Striking Across the US as the School Year Restarts
This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence. Teachers and other workers have raised concerns about staffing shortages, low salaries, safety concerns, unfair contracts, and widespread student return to classrooms across the country for the 2022-2023 academic school year. Monday saw over 500 staff at American University in Washington, D.C. kick off a new year. […]
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Minnesota May Become “Abortion Access Island,” But Not Necessarily for Everyone
Fast three decades ago, well before the fall of Roe v. WadeThe blond brick Building for Women, Duluth (Minnesota), has been a popular destination for patients who travel from other states to have an abortion. They came from places where abortions are legal, but clinics are scarce, and from states with narrower windows of opportunity. […]
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Throwing People Out of Work Is No Way to “Fix” the Economy
From groceries to rent, prices are rising on just about everything these days — and those with already-stretched budgets are feeling the pinch. Bringing prices down must be a top priority for lawmakers, but Washington’s default tool for dealing with inflation — aggressive interest rate hikes — only makes life harder for these families. That’s […]
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Poor Countries Are Suffering the Worst Climate Woes But Getting the Least Help
As a simple scan of the news reveals, the world is getting hotter and it’s having a devastating impact on our lives. In England, which is suffering from drought, temperatures can reach as high as 86°F. are breaking recordsWildfires that have erupted up and downThe country are growing in frequency,While the source of the Thames […]
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