Corporate Exploitation of Prison Labor Reaches Deep into the Supply Chain
Although we may only be familiar with a handful of these corporations, many others are suppliers to top-tier brands who are not PIECP participants. Dickinson Frozen Foods uses prison labor to package potatoes and distribute them later. household food brandsLike Pillsbury and Campbell Soup. Seat King is a supplier for industrial lawn mower manufacturer Husqvarna. […]
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Only a Quarter of the $9 Billion HUD Got to Combat COVID Impacts Has Been Spent
This articleThe original publication was published by Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit investigative news agency based in Washington, D.C. The massive pandemic relief bill of March 2020 contained about $9 billion that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development could divide up between states and cities to deal with housing-related coronavirus fallsout. The […]
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US Air Wars Killed Thousands of Civilians, Including Children, NY Times Reports
Many thousands of previously undiscovered Pentagon documents show that the U.S. air wars In the Middle East have been marked by “deeply flawed intelligence” and have killed thousands of civilians, many of them children, according to a shocking new report in The New York TimesSaturday afternoon The 5-year TimesInvestigation received more than 1,300 reports on […]
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Biden Backs Out of Negotiations to Compensate Separated Migrant Families
Human rights activists were After U.S. Department of Justice lawyers informed representatives of hundreds of families that were separated at the U.S.–Mexico border, they announced Thursday that they would not be continuing negotiations to compensate the families as President Joe Biden promised. Instead of settling over 900 claims, the administration signaled it will go to […]
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Child Tax Credit Set to End, Potentially Pushing Millions of Kids Into Poverty
Child advocates fired Friday was a grim day as Democrats failed to find a way to extend the child tax credit. nearly 10 million children You are at risk of falling into poverty again Talks regarding Build Back Better stalledThe party has less than two more weeks to pass an extension to the child tax […]
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Sen. Raphael Warnock Urges End to Filibuster, Passage of Voting Rights Bills
In a powerful speech Tuesday on the Senate floor, Raphael Warnock, a Democratic Senator from Georgia, urged conservative members of his party not to block voting rights legislation. Although Warnock didn’t name Senators Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema in his speech, he said that the senators opposed the elimination of the filibuster to allow Democrats […]
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DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Lift Rulings Blocking Mandate for Health Care Workers
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally requested that the United States Supreme Court lift lower court orders that have halted the enforcement of the Biden administration’s requirements for certain health care workers to get vaccinated. The White House has mandated that all workers in health facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding be vaccinated […]
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Kshama Sawant Emerges Victorious From Disingenuous Recall Attempt
The corporate-backed campaign to recall Seattle’s socialist City Councilor Kshama Sawant, which stretched on for a contentious 16 months, has concluded with a victory for Sawant, who will remain in her seat as the lone leftist of the council. It was a bitterly fought battle that mobilized District 3. This unusual December special election saw […]
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56 Migrant Deaths in Chiapas Were Due to Border Crackdown, Not An “Accident”
At least 56 migrants — mostly from Guatemala, many of them families with minor children — being transported from Mexico’s southern border region to the country’s heartland in Puebla by smugglers, were recently killed in an apparent road accident, with dozens more seriously injured. This unspeakably tragic event is being widely reported as “accidental” in […]
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2021 Arctic Report Card Tells a Human Story of Cascading Climate Disruption
The Arctic has been long portrayed as a remote end-of-the Earth place, far removed from our everyday experience. As the planet warms rapidly, what happens to this icy region? temperatures are rising twice as fast as the rest of the globeIt is affecting our lives in an increasing number around the world. On December 14, […]
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