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Right-wing law means Brazil will extend coal use for another 18 years

January 10, 2022 By Olivia Rosane

Extending coal use “contradicts the energy transition, with significant environmental impacts, and extends to inefficient costs for all energy consumers."

Jobless rate ends 2021 at 3.9%; EPI: Job leavers took better work

January 7, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

Gains for Black workers were behind those registered for white workers.

Kentucky Republicans ignore people’s needs, push anti-Critical Race Theory bills instead

January 7, 2022 By Berry Craig

If you polled Kentucky voters on what the General Assembly should focus on, almost all of them would say aiding tornado-ravaged communities and helping protect them against the uber-contagious COVID-19 omicron variant.

Unions say key now is the fight to pass voting rights bills

January 7, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

Labor leaders mark Jan. 6 anniversary with a call to push for passage of the voting rights bill in the Senate.

At 75 years old, neoliberalism has lived long enough

January 7, 2022 By Doug Nicholls

With socialism and social democracy on the rise in the postwar years, the ideologues of the capitalist class dusted off “free market economics” and made it new again.