-
11 votes
-
Donald Trump benefits from newly approved merger: The US Securities and Exchange Commission approved a merger between Trump Media and Technology and Digital World Acquisition Corp
7 votes -
Guyana is trying to keep its oil blessing from becoming a curse
16 votes -
The 355 million dollar US civil fraud ruling against Donald Trump, annotated
30 votes -
US grocery stores should cut prices as costs ease, Joe Biden White House says
29 votes -
Stop pretending you’re not rich [2017]
31 votes -
Finnish unions have called for industrial action to protest government proposals on labour law reforms which they say would adversely impact low-wage earners
10 votes -
The war on ‘woke capital’ is backfiring
11 votes -
Prediction markets have an elections problem
9 votes -
Greedflation accounts for fifty-three cents of every US dollar of inflation in past six months
62 votes -
Palm Springs capped Airbnb rentals. Now some home prices are in free-fall.
49 votes -
New York City plans to wipe out $2 billion in medical debt for 500,000 residents
27 votes -
Why is Israel sending Palestinian taxes to Norway? Public money destined for Gaza has been frozen by Israel since November.
13 votes -
New US bank-overdraft fee limits to go into effect
41 votes -
Moose, maple syrup and monopolies: Is Canada finally taking on its oligarchs?
10 votes -
How Russia punched an $11 billion hole in the West’s oil sanctions
17 votes -
US real estate agents compensation challenged in suit from Joe Biden Department of Justice
12 votes -
US Supreme Court case SEC v Jarkesy threatens the role of adminstrative law judges
14 votes -
Payments app Zelle begins refunds for imposter scams after Washington pressure
13 votes -
How millions of US borrowers got $127 billion in student loans canceled
15 votes -
Why the US never saves money on health care
25 votes -
Canadian federal government considering new caps on payday lending and high risk lending
12 votes -
Europe's single currency, used daily by about 350 million people, has become a hot topic in an unlikely place – Sweden
12 votes -
The fallout from Mozambique’s debt scandal reaches a London court
4 votes -
Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
33 votes -
US national debt tops $33 trillion for first time
10 votes -
The conservative push for “school choice” has had its most successful year ever
44 votes -
Norway wealth tax pushes the rich to move to Switzerland – millionaire prime minister has embarked on a push to tax the wealthiest for social justice
41 votes -
The GDP gap between Europe and the United States is now 80%
37 votes -
A huge threat to the US budget has receded. No one is sure why (A decade of Medicare spending growth and projections)
18 votes -
Donald Trump inflated net worth by more than $2 billion in one year, New York attorney general alleges
15 votes -
Judge rules against banks' request to seal documents in upcoming New York Donald Trump case. Records will be public with very specific exceptions for privacy.
24 votes -
US President Joe Biden is still trying to forgive student debt in ‘a very direct confrontation’ with US Supreme Court, expert says
59 votes -
Kenya - debt comes due and social unrest
5 votes -
Los Angeles is exploring banning cashless businesses, following the example of New York City, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, Colorado, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Washington, DC
59 votes -
The biggest bank heist in history (and why you've never heard of it)
7 votes -
US Education Department readies latest tranche of student debt relief but faces new legal challenges to the program
18 votes -
Portugal’s bid to attract foreign money backfires as rental market goes ‘crazy’
45 votes -
Mastercard move at cannabis shops intensifies call for US decriminalization
42 votes -
US tax code blamed as wealthy see major retirement account gains
44 votes -
Türkiye is heading for a classic currency crisis. All of its reserves and then some are borrowed.
28 votes -
The trillion-dollar grift: Inside the greatest scam of all time
26 votes -
Report - The increasing return of legal child labor to the US economy
Child labor is making a comeback with a vengeance. A striking number of lawmakers are undertaking concerted efforts to weaken or repeal statutes that have long prevented (or at least seriously...
Child labor is making a comeback with a vengeance. A striking number of lawmakers are undertaking concerted efforts to weaken or repeal statutes that have long prevented (or at least seriously inhibited) the possibility of exploiting children.
Take a breath and consider this: the number of kids at work in the U.S. increased by 37% between 2015 and 2022. During the last two years, 14 states have either introduced or enacted legislation rolling back regulations that governed the number of hours children can be employed, lowered the restrictions on dangerous work, and legalized subminimum wages for youths.
Iowa now allows those as young as 14 to work in industrial laundries. At age 16, they can take jobs in roofing, construction, excavation, and demolition and can operate power-driven machinery. Fourteen-year-olds can now even work night shifts and once they hit 15 can join assembly lines. All of this was, of course, prohibited not so long ago.
Legislators offer fatuous justifications for such incursions into long-settled practice. Working, they tell us, will get kids off their computers or video games or away from the TV. Or it will strip the government of the power to dictate what children can and can’t do, leaving parents in control — a claim already transformed into fantasy by efforts to strip away protective legislation and permit 14-year-old kids to work without formal parental permission.
In 2014, the Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank, published “A Case Against Child Labor Prohibitions,” arguing that such laws stifled opportunity for poor — and especially Black — children. The Foundation for Government Accountability, a think tank funded by a range of wealthy conservative donors including the DeVos family, has spearheaded efforts to weaken child-labor laws, and Americans for Prosperity, the billionaire Koch brothers’ foundation, has joined in.
Here is a Robert Frost poem related to the subject of the article. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53087/out-out
I'm GenX and I worked as a teen, but my earliest jobs were babysitting, not industrial labor.
54 votes -
Gini global inequality at lowest level in nearly 150 years
13 votes -
US Supreme Court strikes down President Biden's student loan forgiveness: Now what?
117 votes -
A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections
28 votes -
US President Biden can probably forgive student debt even if SCOTUS rules against him
28 votes -
Cheques will be phased out in Australia by 2030 as mobile wallet use sky-rockets
18 votes -
Why are US red states hiring so much faster than blue states?
7 votes -
The high-wire drama of raising the US debt ceiling is making headlines again. Is there a better way? Perhaps Denmark has the answer
5 votes