“More than ever, we’re concerned about the worsening health situation and its impact on the burgeoning recovery. Rebounding mobility and poor use of protective equipment will make for a dangerous summer cocktail.” At a White ...
Pompeo’s assertion that Hong Kong no longer deserves special treatment could have wide-ranging economic effects for both states, depending on how Trump decides to proceed. Since the British government divested itself of Hong Kong in ...
Reuters was informed on Monday of an internal report circulated within the upper echelons of Beijing that describes the geopolitical repercussions China may face from the COVID-19 pandemic. Reuters was informed on Monday of an ...
Bipartisan efforts in Congress could result in another relief package this week. President Donald Trump and leaders from both parties have spoken optimistically about the prospect of passing a $450 billion aid package designed exclusively ...
“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total.” President Donald Trump alone has the power to reopen the US economy, he declared at his Monday evening briefing, according to the New ...
The US Congress just passed a historic $2.2 trillion stimulus last week, but it is already looking ahead to the next stage of economic relief. When lawmakers negotiated the previous relief package, they said further ...
“America may be witnessing just the beginning of the dire situation as economists anticipate the unemployment rate will continue to climb.” US stock markets closed Thursday with their third consecutive day on the rise on ...
‘Numbers matter, because they’re not just numbers. They’re people, whose lives and families have been turned upside down.” The world is fighting a global pandemic, and the United States is set to become one of ...
“Central to Democrats’ concerns with the legislation was a $425 billion ‘slush fund’ for the Federal Reserve, which it could use to bailout businesses while also withholding the names of those companies for up to six ...
Bumping elbows at the United Nations. The United Nations has shut down most of its meetings and all of its conferences, but the world body in New York stays open. There are peacekeeping missions to ...
“It is unjust and unacceptable that the CEOs of major corporations are making an average of 287 times more than their average worker.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., wants to tackle income inequality and to do ...
The United States’ heavy-handed approach toward sanctions may have consequences far more severe than the US is prepared for. As Iran is inching ever closer to renege on the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal ...
Protests against India’s new Citizenship Act are now ongoing in every part of India, with a cross-section of society outraged by the religious implications of this law. On December 13, the United Nations high commissioner ...
Wealthy countries have left developing countries with an ugly choice: to forgo carbon, the cheapest fuel, and then forgo social development for their populations; or to continue to use carbon and threaten the planet. In ...
The two main measures of the U.S. economy are showing the same trends under Trump that were shown under Obama ever since 2010. The economic performance of the U.S. under Trump is basically the same ...
Government penetration and control over media of little interest to those who are subject to it. (By Joshua Cho, FAIR) Last month, CNBC (10/7/19) reassured us that fears of a potential recession are “overblown,” because the ...
Here in the U.S., Transparency International found that the number of Americans who see “direct action” as the antidote to our corrupt political system has risen from 17 percent to 25 percent since Trump took office. ...
Popular uprisings rejecting longheld neoliberalist policies are sweeping the globe, and Chile, fittingly, may be at the forefront. Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and ...
The United Nations has repeatedly said that sanctions are not a humane policy and must no longer be allowed to be part of the arsenal of the powerful nations. In late October, Human Rights Watch ...
Neoliberalism, the developed world’s policy framework of the past 40 years, is now in serious crisis. The slogan is pithy—Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it ...
Europe does not have a refugee or migration crisis. The real crisis is in Africa, where the thief—often a European firm—continues to undermine the continent’s ability to breathe. If you ask an African migrant in ...
Neoliberal free-trade policies that favor aggregated seed, food and chemical corporations prevent family-scale farms that use regenerative practices from profiting. We need a fair Green New Deal now. In February, a dairy farmer friend sent ...
“Look, our members are still waiting for the supposed greatness of this economy to reach their kitchen tables.” The president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation ...
“Let’s call this what it is: legalized looting — looting that makes a handful of Wall Street managers very rich while costing thousands of people their jobs…” – Elizabeth Warren on the private equity industry. ...
“The real (inflation-adjusted) minimum wage is now roughly 30 percent lower than it was in 1968, and it has been more than 10 years since Congress raised the minimum wage.” The House voted on Thursday ...
“What Jacinda Ardern is doing is groundbreaking, Ardern’s government is setting an example that the rest of the world can and should follow.” New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern and finance minister Grant Robertson released ...
“The survey showed that it would take 158 years for the typical worker at most big companies to make what their CEOs did in 2018, seven years longer than if both were still at 2017 ...
“This policy would, over time, cut or take away entirely food assistance, health and other forms of basic assistance from millions of people who struggle to put food on the table, keep a roof over ...
As the trade war escalates between the U.S. and China, some countries in Southeastern Asia could come out winners. On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Washington will apply a ten percent tariff on imported ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised investments and loans to African nations worth $60 billion as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Xi denies the allegation that the financial support is a debt ...
“The minimum wage law very clearly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay ...
Jobs, jobs, jobs! Growth, growth, growth! Winning, winning, winning! That’s the story we get from our beloved president, Donald J. Trump, at least. As many of us can attest to, though, what he says may ...
Don’t tell me this economy sucks. Sure, it’s far from perfect, but look at the statistics, look at Americans getting back to work, look at manufacturing returning to our shores, and tell me that we ...
We now have less than 100 days left until the November 2018 midterm elections. While the economy hums along at its highest growth rate since 2014 and taxpayers have more money in their pockets, the ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a study revealing that American farmers are committing suicide at rates significantly above the average population. The data showed that the suicide rate among farmers ...
Cover image from @toby1942wow on Twitter On Tuesday’s primary election in California, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom moved closer to becoming governor of the most populous state in the country and the world’s fifth largest ...
(FactCheck.org, by Robert Farley) With gasoline prices rising, Sen. Chuck Schumer placed the blame on President Donald Trump, and specifically his decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. But experts say that decision has had ...
More than 40 percent of American households cannot afford rent, transportation, childcare, or a cellphone, according to a new study from the United Way Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed Project, obtained by Axios. U.S. households ...
There’s something tragic and unequivocally devastating happening to men in America today. During this #MeToo era, men are seen as rapists and misogynists when in fact most are gentlemen. Sadly, men are literally a ...
“We cannot continue to have a democracy that engages in the kind of policy violence that we see happening every day.” (Common Dreams, by Julia Conley) Aiming to continue the work that Rev. Dr. Martin ...
Is the American economy becoming great again under the Trump administration’s pro-business economic policies, prolonging the extended recovery following the 2007-2009 recession? Are wages finally beginning to inch upward? Is inflation getting out of control? ...
(All Your News articles are submitted by readers of Citizen Truth and do not reflect the views of Citizen Truth. CT believes in the power of regular people sharing their stories and experiences with each ...
The United States is far from the land of the free these days. The governments in state capitols and Washington DC have confiscated our rights and are selling them back to us. American culture has ...
GOP Tax Cuts: In new letter, wealthy group denounces the GOP proposal, which “would disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals and corporations with provisions including repealing the estate tax, repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax, and slashing the ...
The Paradise Papers spur governments around the world into action. (Reveal News, by Sasha Chavkin) Governments around the world are swinging into action in response to the Paradise Papers, launching investigations, audits and issuing the first ...
“The elite ranks of our billionaire class continue to pull apart from the rest of us,” a new Institute for Policy study analysis finds. (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) In the United States, the 400 richest individuals ...
Shouldn’t the returns from at least part of our national wealth go to all citizens and not just the already rich? (Inequality.org, by Stewart Lansley) Many attempts to tackle inequality fall short because they fail to target ...
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