Author: Vins

The federal government continues to funnel four times as much funding for roadways as for public transit, a longstanding priority that has deprived the nation’s poorest of basic mobility for……

A November 2021 report by The Progressive revealed that Brian P. Haughton, a former member of multiple racist skinhead bands and a past leader in the neo-Nazi movement, now holds……

Severe lack of infrastructure contributes to a “digital divide” in many southern states that most impacts rural Black Americans, according to an October 2021 study produced by the Joint Center……

In a January 21, 2022 article for The Conversation, Colin Page McGinnis, a doctoral candidate in Human Sciences at Ohio State University, shared a startling discovery he and his colleagues……

Many politicians and economists believe that cancelling student debt is regressive because cancellation would unfairly benefit wealthier households. However, a June 2021 Roosevelt Institute study found that cancelling student debt……

While the COVID-19 pandemic continued to claim lives in 2021, lower-income nations in need of lifesaving vaccines were targeted and exploited by the monopoly pharmaceutical brand Pfizer. Throughout 2021, Pfizer……

With over 65 million people in the United States who have recovered from COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released new data shifting the formerly dismissed…

When COVID-19 arrived, a frightened nation turned to two federal health agencies—the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for guidance. Now,……

While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advocate vaccines as the best ways to protect individuals from infection and end the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries and health……

In a March 2022 article for City Journal, Nicholas Wade, a former science editor at the New York Times, wrote: “Few science stories are more important than understanding where the……

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US federal and state prisons saw a 42 percent spike in inmate deaths from 4,200 in 2019 to 6,100 in 2020. In a……

Pension officials who manage the retirement savings of the working class are funneling employees’ pension savings to Wall Street and finance industry executives as investments, according to a July 2021……

A joint investigation by Food and Water Watch and the Guardian provides new details on the “market dominance” of the largest US food producers, Nina Lakhani, Aliya Uteuova, and Alvin……

Despite the national poverty rate making its largest upward jump in recorded history, states stockpile $5.2 billion in undistributed funds from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF).……

Consolidated mega-corporations are responsible for record inflation despite their attempts to disguise increases as an inevitable side effect of pandemic realities and administration responses. As the economy attempts to shake……

Across the United States, politicians are pushing legislation that follows in the footsteps of a model bill put forth by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), seeking to make it……

Since January 2019, the EPA has received more than 1,200 legally required disclosures of chemicals that present a “substantial risk of injury to health or the environment.” Internal whistleblowers revealed……

Between May 6 and May 18, 2021, 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, found 500 cases of digital rights violations targeting Palestinians. Palestinians and pro-Palestine activists……

Since 2020, 26 Palestinian journalists based in the West Bank have been imprisoned for attempting to cover Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. According to an April 2022 report from The……

On October 5, 2021, the NATO association of Canada (NAOC) held a panel discussion on its current interests and developments in “Cognitive Warfare.” According to an October 2021 report by……

The Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) and other women’s groups leading the opposition to the Equal Rights Act and the Equality Act are……

A September 2021 working paper by the International Monetary Fund found that globally the fossil fuel industry receives subsidies of $11 million per minute, as reported on by The Guardian……

K-12 school cafeteria staff are severely underpaid according to a March 2022 report in Jacobin. School cafeteria workers made an average of $12.32 per hour between 2014 and 2019, making……

Facebook’s policy on “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” (DIO) has become “an unaccountable system that disproportionately punishes certain communities,” Sam Biddle reported for the Intercept in October 2021. The policy, he……