Economy

650,000 people. That is the number of working class and poor people whose CalFresh (California’s SNAP …

The New York Times reports that Amazon is planning to eventually replace 600,000 jobs with …

While a Republican government shutdown halts services and threatens healthcare for millions, the White House …

While the government is shut down, money stops going to workers and services they need, while it continues going to the rich and military spending. …

Since taking office in late January, Trump and his anti-worker bureaucrats have already begun to …

A recent report by Brasil de Fato highlights a shocking contradiction at the heart of …

The Republican crafted and Trump supported tax and budget bill passed by the House of …

On April 2nd, Trump announced a range of new tariffs on goods imported into the …

As Trump has issued executive order after executive order and his billionaire bureaucrats have cut …

On March 27, President Trump declared that a million federal workers would lose their collective …

The Trump administration has been threatening and implementing tariffs and trade wars with Mexico, Canada, …

In the recent slashing and burning of various government workers and agencies during the early …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now newsletter for BART (Bay Area Rapid …

BGE (Baltimore Gas and Electric Company) is increasing their prices for gas and electricity again, …

The latest data on homelessness from the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows that …

On November 15, Oaklandside, a local Oakland news outlet, published an article on the city …

Beginning in 2016, Donald Trump and the Republicans started attacking immigrants. Trump has said such …

The French government has passed its 2025 budget, cutting public services and increasing military spending. …

Negotiations for new contracts covering 45,000 longshoremen, working at 11 ports on the Atlantic seaboard …

PG&E’s profits predictably increased after they raised utility rates. …

On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom passed an executive order that would call on state …

Amazon’s Prime Day has become notorious not just for its deals, but for the massive …

Boeing’s unionized machinists held strike authorization votes on July 17th. As many as 30,000 of …

Since the beginning of July, demonstrations and blockades have been taking place in several cities …

Political and economic crises are often linked, not separate events. …

The Supreme Court has ruled that local governments can punish people for being homeless. …

Two months after the collision with the Key Bridge, the container ship Dali has been moved out of the way. …

Childcare has become unaffordable. …

On May 9, Argentinian workers conducted a general strike against the policies of President Milei. …

Since moratoriums on evictions were lifted following the first two years of the Covid-19 emergency, …

When President Biden sent his proposed Tax and Budget proposal to Congress on March 11th, …

Workers at big non-union corporations like Tesla and Amazon have been trying to organize unions …

The largest grocery store merger in history is taking place between Albertsons and Kroger. These …

As oil and gas companies make record profits, gas prices continue to rise. From 2021 …

Farmers in India have marched to the capital, New Delhi, to urge the government to …

The people of Cusco, Peru are rising up against the privatization of Machu Picchu. …

PG&E is increasing rates to pay for infrastructure upgrades they should have done a long time ago. …

Capitalists at the World Economic Forum predict worsening economic conditions over the next decade. If they have trouble keeping profits up, we, the working class, are the ones who they will punish. …

The Panama Canal, which has historically connected commerce from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is …

Biden and Xi met at APEC, but their meeting was more for optics than action. …

Many happenings around the world are not things to be thankful for. …

The September jobs report from the U.S. government said that 336,000 new jobs were created …

The immediate threat of a U.S. government shutdown that emerged in late September has been …

Today, according to the United Nations, there are 110 million people in the world displaced …

It seems like every day we are told how great the Biden administration has been …

Earlier this month, Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal. This agreement was …

A new study from UC Berkeley economists dismantles the lie often told by the bosses …

Following “momentum driven” algorithms that automatically determine when to buy or sell commodities at the …