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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) is teaming up with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) to form a bipartisan minimum-wage raise to counter the $15 federal minimum wage favored by progressives, the White House and the U.S. public. But the wage that Romney and Sinema are reportedly advocating for is lower than the minimum wage in Sinema’s own state. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) told HuffPost that the senators’ plan is to raise the federal minimum wage to $11 an hour. In Sinema’s home state of Arizona, however, the minimum wage is currently $12.15 an hour — higher than the threshold that Sin...

C. J. Polychroniou argues that all financial and political links to the fossil fuel industry must be severely disrupted if any serious progress is to be made towards building a development-led green economy on a global scale. We live in a strange and dangerous world. By all accounts, the climate crisis threatens to destroy human civilization as we know it unless immediate action is taken to reduce to zero carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. As such, the conditions of rational discourse mandate that climate change would have become by now humanity’s number o...

Annual Freedman Lecture will examine the transition from a carbon-based economy April 7, 2021 AMHERST, Mass. – Three experts will present different perspectives on how the United States and the world can transition from a carbon-based economy to one that is greenhouse gas emissions neutral when the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences presents “Climate Crisis: Transitioning Away from a Carbon-Based Economy,” the 2021 Freedman Lecture, April 22 at 12:30 p.m. Panelists for the online event include: Jacopo Buongiorno, director of the Cent...

U.S. President Joe Biden has much to consider if he wants to go down as one of the greats, but this window of opportunity won’t last long, writes Julian NoiseCat. Photo by Adam Schultz / Biden for President / Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Last week, United States President Joe Biden travelled to Pittsburgh, Pa. — "Steel City,” where he launched his campaign two years ago — to unveil his infrastructure plan. Dubbed the American Jobs Plan, the proposed legislation follows the $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan recently enacted by Congress. The jobs plan would invest well over $2 trillion ov...

A Green New Deal Is Actually More Affordable in the Long Term Than Fossil Fuels Protesters gather outside Union Station on March 31, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images for Green New Deal Network By With global warming representing humanity’s greatest existential crisis, reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, as recommended by the 2018 report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), should be one of the U.S.’s most urgent priorities. We need a Green New Deal now. In examining the urgency of this necessity, we must reco...