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Grocery prices have jumped by 25% over the past four years, outpacing overall inflation of 19% during the same period.

Immigrant workers at an agricultural packing shed in Battleboro, North Carolina are celebrating a union agreement which will bring them new benefits. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee recently concluded a two-year campaign resulting in a collective bargaining agreement to cover those who work in packing operations and will bring a wage increase of 8%, guaranteed overtime pay, paid leave for union business as well as bereavement pay. Ana Lilia Rentería Sanchez, a warehouse packer, said s...

As Black History Month begins, people are looking at how to close New Yorks racial wage gap. Between 2010 and 2020, the states wage gap shrank by only a few thousand dollars. Then came the pandemic. ...

— Trump is leaning hard on SCOTUS, just like he did on Mike Pence. Will members of the Supreme Court get the Pence “gallows” next? Will they cave to his threats and promises? Trump’s ability to avoid going to jail for his many crimes, and to get revenge on those who’ve tried to hold him to account...

With the 2024 presidential election looming, 96 percent of Americans say inflation is an important issue to them.

The paper boosts the controversial progressive argument that corporations are squeezing American households just because they can.

It looks like ordinary Americans are finally starting to feel a little better about what economists say is a strong economy. Consumer sentiment surged in January, according to a widely-cited University of Michigan survey, which registered 78.8 in the first month of 2024 – up 21.4% from a year ago and the highest reading since July 2021. The survey previously showed a big jump in December, as well, and the two-month increase was the largest in over 30 years. Survey respondents reported a p...

‘Greedflation’ caused more than half of last year’s inflation surge, study finds, as corporate profits remain at all-time highs.

Thinktank report says ‘resounding evidence’ shows companies continue to keep prices high even as their inflationary costs drop

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