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 […]
“A key player in the extreme MAGA House majority now admits what anyone paying attention has suspected all along,” said one watchdog group. Through their actions in recent months, House Republicans have made clear that they view the debt ceiling standoff as a hostage situation that they can exploit to advance their political agenda—which includes draconian cuts to social programs […]
“We don’t need to give in to Republican extortion or default,” the House progressives asserted. “The Constitution grants the president another option.” After GOP House negotiators bailed on U.S. debt ceiling talks on Friday, around two-thirds of the Congressional Progressive Caucus urged President Joe Biden to “invoke his constitutional authority granted in the 14th Amendment” in order […]