David Morales beat a sitting Providence mayor who vetoed rent stabilization. The win is the latest evidence that the democratic left's municipal strategy — target incumbents on housing, organize from the bottom up — is producing results.
America's 100 lowest-wage S&P 500 corporations spent $718 billion on stock buybacks between 2019 and 2025 while their CEOs earned 614 times median worker pay — and lobbied to cut the food and healthcare programs their own employees rely on.
A new GAO report finds Amazon workers' use of food assistance nearly tripled as the company's profits grew by $66 billion. This is not a poverty wages story — it is a corporate subsidy story, and taxpayers are the ones writing the check.
More than half of U.S. business leaders are cutting employee benefits this year, with many citing AI investment as the reason. But the workers losing parental leave and retirement matches aren't the ones making that tradeoff.
As federal social spending shrinks and war budgets grow, residents in at least 10 states are organizing ballot campaigns and legislative pushes to tax billionaire wealth for schools, hospitals, and food programs. They're routing around Congress because Congress won't act.