Labor

Extreme Heat Is Radicalizing the Workforce

Venessa Wong / Capital & Main Oct 16, 2023 From Waffle House to Dollar General to Burger King, record heat is spurring workers to organize. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna’s Stop BEZOS Act Aims to Get Billionaires Off ‘Corporate Welfare’

Ilana Novick / Truthdig Sep 6, 2018 The Vermont senator and California representative say it’s time for the Amazons of the world to pay workers fair wages. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: David Cay Johnston

BLANK Sep 12, 2014 The dogged investigative reporter uses plain language to describe the congressionally prescribed byzantine tax schemes that cheat ordinary Americans to benefit financial elites. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Poverty Wages

Clay Bennett / Truthdig Sep 6, 2014 Dig deeper

How Businesses Get Enriched by Taxes

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 5, 2014 Millions of tax-paying Americans pick up the check left by multinational corporations that escape their obligations while enjoying all the benefits of doing business in America -- including tax credits of up to 33 cents for every dollar of profit -- David Cay Johnston writes at Newsweek. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fox News Logic

Nick Anderson / Truthdig Aug 31, 2014 Dig deeper

Canada

Clay Bennett / Truthdig Aug 30, 2014 Dig deeper

‘Left, Right & Center’: Ukraine, ISIS, Burger King and Drones

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 30, 2014 Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists look at Russia's continuous push into Ukraine, a possible price for passivity with ISIS, the tax logic or corporate betrayal of Burger King's expatriation to Canada, and the coming of the Google drones. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fast Food Worker Revolt

Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons May 18, 2014 Dig deeper

McDonald’s Advises Workers How Much to Tip Their Pool Boys and Au Pairs

BLANK Dec 6, 2013 McDonald's once again displayed its utter ignorance of the lives of its low-wage workers in an online advice column recommending seasonal tipping rates for luxury services And on the same day those workers joined a nationwide walkout protesting poverty wages Yes, Ronald McDonald is a clown, but still . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Corporations Enlist Ex-U.S. Spies to Surveil Nonprofits

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 26, 2013 A new report reveals how corporations use ex-U.S. intelligence agents to spy on environmental, anti-war, consumer safety and other kinds of nonprofit groups they regard as potential threats. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Food Waste Worsens Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Sep 14, 2013 The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says food wastage across the world -- totaling 1.3 billion tonnes of food annually -- is the largest source of global greenhouse gas emissions after China and the USA. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )