Billionaires have seen their wealth skyrocket over the past two years, adding roughly $2.7 billion per day to their fortunes while ordinary people struggle to afford basic necessities. As the world’s corporate and political elite convened in Davos, Switzerland for the first winter World Economic Forum in three years, an analysis published Monday by Oxfam International […]
The leader of one of the largest teachers’ unions in the U.S. accused President Donald Trump over the weekend of “trying to bury” federal guidelines warning that fully reopening schools and universities in the fall poses a high risk of spreading Covid-19 and endangering the health of students, faculty, and parents. A 69-page packet (pdf) of […]
WHITE HOUSE – Amid a surge of COVID-19 infections, especially among younger people, the White House is pressuring schools across the United States to reopen. “We’re very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools, to get them open. It’s very important,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday […]