Economic Justice
Economic Justice
Politics
Who’s Profiting—and Profiteering—From the Banking Mess?
Mar 21, 2023 Depositors in small and medium-sized banks are now fleeing to giant banks that have been deemed “too big to fail.”
News
Protests Intensify in France
Mar 20, 2023 French protests intensify over attempt to force retirement age hike.
Africa
The AfDB Sides With the Agrochemical Industrial Complex
Mar 15, 2023 The African Development Bank sides with the agro-industrial complex over farmers.
Opinion
America’s Hidden Epidemic of Hunger
Mar 15, 2023 How it feels to be hungry in America.
Economic Justice
Bernie Sanders Proposes a Guaranteed Minimum Teacher Salary of $60,000
Mar 14, 2023 Senator Bernie Sanders proposes guaranteed minimum teacher salary of $60,000 nationwide.
Economic Justice
The Runaway Train of Corporate Greed
Mar 10, 2023 Norfolk Southern plans to stick with "precision-scheduled railroading," a profit-maximizing approach endangers communities nationwide.
Dig
Chile’s Utopia Has Been Postponed
Mar 8, 2023 Journalist Marc Cooper was serving as personal translator to Chilean president Salvador Allende when the 1973 U.S.-backed coup led by Augusto Pinochet forced him to flee the country. In January, Cooper returned to Santiago to observe the country’s political situation 50 years later. He found a Chile transformed but uncertain, struggling to chart a course forward one year after the election of its first leftist government since Allende.2024 Southern California Journalism Award: Second Place, Feature
Economic Justice
Food Corporations Earn Billions While Millions Go Hungry
Mar 6, 2023 Twenty of the world’s biggest food corporations paid $53.5 billion to their shareholders over the past two years.
Women
The Gender Pay Gap Has Barely Changed In Two Decades
Mar 6, 2023 In 2022, American women typically earned 82 cents for every dollar earned by men. That was about the same as in 2002, when they earned 80 cents to the dollar.
Economic Justice