Economics
SVB collapse: Who will get bailed out, and who will pay?
March 13, 2023The latest from award-winning People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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Unemployment rate edges up; Businesses claim to create more low-wage jobs
March 13, 2023Cuts in warehouse workers—people added during the pandemic who are now being let go—started showing up in the jobless numbers.
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Silicon Valley Bank collapse reveals danger of a wider financial crisis
March 13, 2023One Wall Street watcher says SVB could be “the first cockroach in the cellar.”
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Rent control and affordable housing were winning issues in the elections
November 16, 2022“The pandemic really made it clear that people who are renting their housing are insecure by definition.”
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World condemns U.S. blockade, again, as crisis builds in Cuba
November 4, 2022Cuban president issues ominous warning on corruption.
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