How Mining Companies Profited off the Pandemic
The pandemic provided opportunities for more exploitation, but communities kept rising up despite greater adversity.
New Report: Pandemic Exposed Black Immigrant Domestic Workers to Exploitation, Wage Theft, Lack of Safety
IPS and NDWA’s latest report highlights the experiences of over 1,000 Black immigrant domestic workers in NYC, MA, and Miami and exposes continued exploitation, safety hazards, and insecurity during the pandemic.
New Report: Bay State Billionaires Reap Wealth Gains of 46 Percent During Pandemic
“These dramatic wealth gains are unseemly in the face of the loss of over a million lives and millions of livelihoods.”
Bay State Billionaires
Massachusetts billionaires’ wealth surges 46 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Struggle for What’s Essential
Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.
One Million COVID-19 Deaths Is a Searing Indictment of Inequality in America
It was poverty that made the pandemic so deadly. We shouldn’t compound the tragedy of 1 million COVID-19 deaths by letting it continue.
No Victory Day
Dealing with stalemates between Russia and Ukraine, environmentalists and climate change, and COVID and humanity.
Billionaire Wealth up $1.7 Trillion as U.S. Passes 1 Million COVID Deaths Milestone
The U.S. has recorded 1 million COVID deaths. In the time it took to reach that grim milestone, billionaire wealth is up $1.7 trillion.
North Korea’s Real Threat
North Korea’s greatest liability is something that it currently views as an asset: its radical isolation.
A Historic Deal for Union Doormen
After servicing New York City’s wealthiest throughout the pandemic, 32,000 residential workers refused to accept a regressive new contract.
Tax Day 2022: We Got The Receipts
How does our government actually spend our tax dollars? NPP has the receipts.
A Pandemic of the Poor
As we approach 1 million COVID-19 deaths, Americans in poorer counties have died at double the rate of wealthier counties.
The Five Plagues Testing Humanity
Nationalism and internationalism are conducting an uncivil war, and humanity is being tested like Job.
China’s Evolving Energy Policies in Africa
China is both reducing and altering the nature of its investments in African energy projects.
Stopping Traffic to Fund Excluded Workers
New York’s essential workers have been excluded from relief and benefits. The Fund Excluded Workers Coalition is fighting to change that.