News – Page 1372 – People's World

Taxing the rich and expanding the vote on California’s ballot

September 25, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon

Disney and other big corporations would be forced to pay their fair share in taxes.

Trump wants the Supreme Court, not the people, to decide the election

September 25, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

When the Court’s term opens in a few days the justices will face some of the most important decisions they have ever made.

Grand Jury to America: Breonna Taylor’s life did not matter

September 25, 2020 By Chauncey K. Robinson

Breonna Taylor is not the first Black woman this system has failed, and unless concrete change is pushed she will not be the last. She deserved better.

Top consumer brands, big banks linked to brutal palm oil worker abuses

September 24, 2020 By Margie Mason And Robin McDowell

Some of the brands you buy every week at the grocery store have links to brutal abuse of workers in Southeast Asia's palm oil industry.

Millions kicked off unemployment, but Senate Republicans still won’t renew $600

September 24, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has killed the House-passed HEROES Act, which would have reinstated the $600 federal unemployment benefit and extended them through Jan. 31.