America’s Billionaires: Borrowing Their Way to Ever More Fabulous Fortunes
The great painter Diego Rivera would not appreciate what our richest are using for collateral.
The great painter Diego Rivera would not appreciate what our richest are using for collateral.
From the very start, the giant retailer’s business strategy has relied on dodging taxes and pocketing public subsidies.
We’d better control machines before they control us.
Could space become the ‘final frontier’ in the struggle for a more equal world?
U.S. billionaire pandemic profit balloons to $4.56 trillion, a 55 percent increase.
In the face of intimidation by one of the largest companies in the world, Alabama workers bravely spoke out about the need for greater labor protections.
The Hollywood actor is mobilizing support for warehouse workers who are making their mark on the long history of southern organizing.
The billionaire philanthropist continues to defy the charitable norms of the 1 percent.
In a holiday shopping season with rampant rates of COVID-19 infection, we must protect frontline workers before it’s too late.
The total wealth of U.S. billionaires reaches $4 trillion, over $1 trillion of which has been gained since the beginning of the pandemic.
This essential workforce is hustling to help holiday shoppers while also organizing hazard pay and other COVID-19 protections.
The combined wealth of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has climbed by nearly $60 billion in the last two months.
Billionaire wealth has grown astoundingly over the last few decades — and, for some “pandemic profiteers,” even more dramatically since the COVID-19 crisis.
Amazon profits from helping oil and gas companies destroy the planet more frugally. Jeff Bezos’ $10 billion climate fund must be viewed in this context.
If we want to expand the middle class, lift up workers and protect the environment, we need to protect our democracy from extreme billionaire influence.