Press Release: The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its annual national food drive on Saturday, May 14. NALC’s food drive, which was first held in 1983, helps feed millions of Americans. The Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive, the country’s largest one-day food drive, provides residents with an easy way to donate food … Read more
The GQP’s 2022 midtern election strategy is anti-immigrant hysteria “white fright.” At the same time, the GQP wants to blame Democrats for inflation, but it turns out that it’s their own anti-immigrant hysteria contributing to inflation. Because American business has long relied on the exploitation of immigrant labor to keep costs down. The so-caled “labor … Read more
Update to Institutional Investors Buying Up Properties Are Putting Inflationary Pressure On Rents And Home Prices (excerpt): What gets almost entirely overlooked in the cost of housing is the emerging role of institutional investors, i.e., the investor class aka The Predator Class, as Dick Meyer dubbed them before the last housing crisis. Reuters reported last … Read more
USA Today reports, Oil giants reap record profits as war rages in Ukraine, energy prices soar: Here’s how much they made: As households around the globe struggle with rising energy bills, some of the world’s leading oil giants reported record profits for the first three months of this year. Profits for Exxon Mobil, Shell and … Read more
The April jobs number came out last week and showed continued strong job growth. The New York Times reported, Job Growth Shows Continuing Vigor of U.S. Economy: The U.S. economic rebound from the pandemic’s devastation held strong in April with another month of solid job growth. Employers added 428,000 jobs, matching the previous month, the Labor … Read more