Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the Jan. 8 strike on an MSF shelter, which led to the death of the five-year-old daughter of an MSF staff member.
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Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, released the following statement applauding the Department of Labor’s new final rule on independent contractors:
The vast majority of state and local tax systems are upside-down, with the wealthy paying a far lesser share of their income in taxes than low- and middle-income families. That’s according to the latest edition of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s Who Pays?, the only distributional analysis of tax systems in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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A new report released today by the national advocacy group Food & Water Watch details how public policy is transforming manure from a waste stream to a corporate revenue stream. “The Big Oil and Big Ag Ponzi Scheme: Factory Farm Gas” outlines how the country’s largest fossil fuel and agriculture companies are investing billions of dollars on the buildout of factory farm biogas, an elaborate and highly-profitable greenwashing scheme that encourages the expansion of polluting factory farms and methane gas at the expense of the climate... Читать дальше...
Today, Meta announced changes to give teens “more age-appropriate experiences” on Facebook and Instagram. The following statement can be attributed to Fairplay Executive Director Josh Golin:
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