Clayton Homes is a low-cost mobile home provider in the US. Recently, they were the focus of an investigation by the Seattle Times and Buzzfeed. The investigation has exposed racially targeted, predatory lending practices. Here's the...
With over 2 million workers, Walmart is the largest employer in the U.S.?Although the company claims that the average hourly wage of its "associates" is $12.81, industry analysts put it closer to?a paltry $8.81. This...
Remember the $1.5 trillion permanent tax cuts Donald Trump signed into law in December?
Republicans told us the projected economic growth will ultimately result in the cuts “paying for themselves,” which is exactly what the American...
Recently, Trevor Noah invited Reshma Saujani to The Daily Show to talk about why we need women who code. When Saujani was running for office in 2010, she would go from school to school and meet...
President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Linda McMahon to lead the Small Business Association (SBA).
The SBA is an independent agency of the federal government designed to provide loans and grants to small business owners and entrepreneurs. It also...
Kellyanne Conway is supposed to be a senior adviser to our illustrious and illegitimate president, Donald Trump, but during an appearance on Fox and Friends early Thursday morning, she sounded more like the host of an...
For two weeks, the New York City Taxi Workers’ Alliance (NYTWA) members have been engaged in a hunger strike outside City Hall demanding Mayor Bill de Blasio grant debt relief for the taxi medallion price...
The L.A. Times is reporting that after a long battle from progressive activists, Governor Jerry Brown has reached an agreement with union representatives to raise the minimum wage to 15 dollars per hour. Assuming the...
Many future American physicians have been training in Cuba for free. This fact exposes some fundamental flaws not only in the medical schools, but in the U.S. education system itself.
Profit-Oriented Healthcare
Not since Michael Moore’s 2007...
It seems the Trump name is in a legal battle once again, but this time Ivanka is the Trump under scrutiny. Aquazzura, an Italian fashion company founded by designer Edgardo Osorio, has filed a lawsuit...
Here are the words we have longed to say for four years: Donald Trump is gone.
After four dark, disconcerting years of anxiety and despondency, things are finally beginning to look brighter.
Not only is Joe Biden...
We have a new hot-button political issue to talk about these days and it's none other than the minimum wage. By and large Democrats are for a minimum wage hike and Republicans are starkly against...
Note to Hollywood movie studios: Controversy sells more tickets than all the advertising in the world.
"Fifty Shades of Grey," which has been debated, dismissed, and decried in the weeks leading up to its theatrical release,...
Last week, cereal giant Kellogg's pulled their ads from Breitbart, the far right, neo-Nazi loving hate news site, which left the site's editor-in-chief, Alexander Marlow, to declare:
"To blacklist Breitbart News in order to placate left-wing totalitarians...
Next month, as President Obama settles in for his morning security briefing, people will be doing something pretty different four miles away. Washington, D.C. is set to host the National Cannabis Festival (NCF). After a year...
Warren Buffett officially threw down the gauntlet at a Clinton rally in Omaha, Nebraska on August 1. Calling it "an offer I hope he cannot refuse," Buffett called for Donald Trump to release his tax...
In a not so surprising turn of events, Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, has been charged with three felony counts. Paxton joins Rick Perry, the now former governor of Texas, on the list of...
In January, Finland began giving its citizens a universal basic income of roughly $500 a month, and will continue to do so for two years. The program is the first of its kind in Europe,...
Congress is in a recess right now, but this Representative has one thing she wants to do when she returns. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) wants to get rid of salary histories. This will make it...
As far as I am aware, there are two guys in my neighborhood that sell the weed they grow. However, this is southern California so I assume that I should be multiplying this number a...
