Economy

'Cruelty Is the Point': Trump Takes Aim at Medicaid With Plan That Could Harm Millions

As Financial Institutions Grow Concerned About Economic Impacts of Climate Crisis, Activists Target Funders of Fossil Fuel Industry

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

As one 350.org volunteer put it, if we don't #StopTheMoneyPipeline that finances climate destruction, "it could blow up the economy."

New Report Offers Blueprint for a 'Clean Slate' for Workers to Fight Economic Inequality and Strengthen Labor Unions

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Democracy at work should be a right, not a fight."

'Haters Gonna Hate and Deniers Will Deny': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greta Thunberg Hit Back at Mnuchin

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg joins a protest by climate activist near UN headquarters on August 30, 2019, in New York.

"It doesn't take a college degree in economics to realize that our remaining 1...

Mocking Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment, 'Foreclosure King' Steve Mnuchin Tells Greta Thunberg to Go Study Economics

Planet Just Had Costliest Decade for Global Natural Disasters: Insurance Industry Report

Humanity Risking 'Global Disaster' as Material Consumption Passes 100 Billion Tons Annually

Warning of 'Environmental Ruin and With It a Human Tragedy,' Report Details Triple Threat to Coral Reefs

'Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,' Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Would Cut Social Security, Medicaid, & Medicare

In Response to Oxfam Inequality Report, Sanders Calls for Global Movement to Counter 'Greed of Billionaire Class'

Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has a Prescription: It's Medicare for All

'Welp, Glad That's Settled:' Global Poll Finds Majority Believe Capitalism More Harmful Than Good

Blaming 'Flawed and Sexist' Capitalist System, Oxfam Report Finds 2,153 Billionaires Wealthier Than 4.6 Billion of World's Poorest

Bernie Sanders Has Been Getting It Right for 40 Years. Now, Says His Movement: 'We Are Going to Win'

A 2020 Reminder: 55% of US Women Between 18 and 54 Would Rather Live Under Socialism Than Capitalism

'The Facts Are Very Clear': Sanders Team Hits Back After Biden Claims Social Security Video Was 'Doctored'

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The Department of Life Except For, You Know, Brown Kids In Cages, Poor People, Mass Shooting Victims, Jews/Muslims/Atheists, Women Who Want Control Over Their Own Bodies and Other Malcontents

Because God knows he's under no pressure these unimpeachable days, Trump along with his unholy henchmen is big time doing up the "sanctity of life" thing - joining anti-abortion zealots, renaming Health and Human Services the gob-smacking "Department of Life," sending an official Space Force Bible into the cosmos and otherwise insisting he is “fighting for those who have no voice," as long as "those" are white, Christian and Trump-inclined. The irate consensus: " Good job doing fascism, guys."