How Unions Are Combating Domestic Violence
As domesitc violence is rising, more union contracts are including provisions to help workers cope.
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Thanks to Manchin, IRA’s Methane Fee on Big Oil Is Riddled With Massive Holes
The IRA methane emissions penalty “was weakened so that it applies to basically no one,” said one climate campaigner.
Read more...A New US Data Privacy Bill Aims To Give You More Control Over Information Collected About You – and Make Businesses Change How They Handle Data
A new data privacy law is in the works, at least in part due to more stringent rules in Europe. But could it have unintended side effects?
Read more...Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers
Abortion has heated up normally sleepy state and local attorney general races.
Read more...10 Years a Detainee: Why Some Spend Years on Rikers, Despite Right to Speedy Trial
Rikers Island was designed to hold people accused of crimes less than a year. Why have some been there for six, eight and even 10 years?
Read more...Buy and Bust: Collapse of Private Equity-Backed Rural Hospitals Mired Employees in Medical Bills
Bad enough when private equity hurts customers and communities. Here they stole from employees by defaulting on health insurance
Read more...How Employers Are Trying to Thwart a Wave of Union Drives
Union organizers are making headway, as measured by the more-aggressive cororate efforts to hobble them.
Read more...The Supreme Court’s Own Goal on Climate Change
Why the Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency looks more like hacker than jurisprudence.
Read more...Think the Financial Crisis Is Over? Mortgage Servicers Still Abusing Borrowers For 10+ Years, Thanks to Lax Fannie/Freddie Oversight
Mortgage servicers are torturing borrowers who have been unable to pay for over a decade. All they are doing now is ripping off governments.
Read more...Biden’s Climate Emergency: Will He Declare It?
Biden has put the idea of using the National Emergency Act to declare a climate emergency in play. What are its odds of happening?
Read more...Seven Skripal Secrets The Secret Intelligence Service Didn’t Want To Let Out
No one, and I mean no one, is hearing from the Skripals despite a public inquiry into a seemingly related, apparent nerve agent death.
Read more...Hubert Horan and Izabella Kaminska: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty: The “Uber Files” Are Not the Uber Exposé You Are Looking For
The Uber Files showUber’s bad conduct was deliberate, but miss that its poor economics meant Uber engaged in a confidence trick on society.
Read more...Excluding Insulin From Drug Price Reform a ‘Slap in the Face,’ Advocates Say
Schumer should reinsert insulin price negotiation and a $35 monthly cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs into Democrats reconciliation bill
Read more...Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War
Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
Read more...Novichok Investigation Collapses in London Court — Adam Chapman, Lawyer Appointed to Represent Sergei & Yulia Skripal, Doesn’t
A bizarre scene of court chaos as a lawyer supposedly representing key witnesses, the Skripals, in an infamous poising case, plays very dumb.
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