NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — “The economy controls everything,” said South Carolina sales executive Chris Stinson. “Hands down it’s what I’m most concerned about, and that’s what I’ll be thinking about when I vote this November.” Stinson isn’t alone. American voters are prioritizing the health of their wallets and pocketbooks with less than four months to go […]
Democrats have handled the economy better than Republicans since at least 1949. A study published by the Economic Policy Institute on Tuesday finds that the U.S. economy does better when a Democrat is in the White House than when a Republican is in charge. The study looked at GDP growth, job growth, inflation-adjusted wage growth, the unemployment rate, and […]
The U.S. economy ended 2023 on a positive note, most economists seem to agree. Growth is up, jobs numbers are strong, and inflation is at a three-year low. “Overall, it’s been doing really well. The GDP has been growing. We didn’t have the recession that a lot of us have been anticipating,” says Selcuk Eren, a senior […]
“Big business is gaslighting us all—they’re hiking prices to make monster profits, plundering people under the cover of a polycrisis.” An analysis released Thursday shows that 722 of the world’s top corporations made combined windfall profits of $1 trillion per year in 2021 and 2022 as people across the planet struggled to meet basic needs due to […]