If the Alabama legislature invested just $25 million in state appropriations for public transit, those funds would leverage up to another $100 million in federal funding to support local transit, creating 2,561 new jobs.
Alabama has one of the country’s largest workforce shortages. Public transit is key to closing it.
Sarah Anderson highlights new measures to increase taxes on companies with big CEO-worker pay gaps.
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh present their book on “How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed” in conversation with John Duda.
Five billionaires and numerous corporations with huge pay gaps are funding a war chest against Proposition D on the city’s primary ballot.
Trump’s executive order to restrict voting by mail would raise the economic barriers to exercising a basic democratic right.
CEO pay at the ‘low-wage 20’ averages $18.6 million, while many of their median workers rely on taxpayer-supported Medicaid and SNAP.
An online public forum with veterans of the anti-mining movement and academics about the defense of water and the environment.
“When corporations can get away with shifting their employees’ basic living costs onto taxpayers, this is a form of corporate welfare,” the report said. “It means taxpayers are subsidizing business models based on poverty wages.”
