Sharon Zhang
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Woman Arrested in South Carolina for Allegedly Taking Abortion Pills in 2021
Though the alleged abortion happened in 2021, police didn’t obtain the warrant for her arrest until after “Dobbs.”… → Read More
Warren Demands Answers on Soaring Egg Prices as Top Producers’ Profits Skyrocket
Egg prices have climbed 150 percent over the last year while the top egg producer has raked in record profits. → Read More
2022 Was Worst Year for School Shootings “by Nearly Every Meaningful Measure”
The gruesome statistic is emblematic of a growing gun violence problem in the U.S. → Read More
US Spends Most on Health Care of Rich Countries But Has Worst Life Expectancy
A new report uncovers the myriad ways in which the U.S. is a global outlier in health spending and health outcomes. → Read More
Republicans Want to Raise Retirement Age to 70 as Life Expectancy Is Falling
This would shorten the retirement window to a mere six years, if the latest life expectancy average holds. → Read More
Lawmakers in 7 States Are Working Together to Tax the Rich
Lawmakers are introducing wealth tax proposals as federal lawmakers fail to combat wealth inequality. → Read More
For Every $1 Gained by a Bottom 90 Percenter Since 2020, a Billionaire Got $1.7M
A report finds the top 1 percent seized twice the new wealth as the rest of the world in the past two years. → Read More
Santos Campaign Filed Dozens of Expenses 1 Penny Below Receipt Reporting Limit
Records show 37 expenditures valued at $199.99 — just short of the amount at which campaigns must keep receipts. → Read More
Starbucks’s Refusal to Bargain With 21 Stores Is Illegal, NLRB Says
This is the first time the NLRB has filed a complaint over the company’s refusal to bargain with multiple stores. → Read More
Biden Admin Plans to Expand Title 42 to Expel Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians
The new rules will model the policy used for Venezuelan asylum seekers, which advocates have denounced as inhumane. → Read More
Cori Bush Pushes to Stop Missouri’s Execution of Amber McLaughlin
Her plea pointed out the “moral depravity” of the death penalty. → Read More
Informant Told FBI Trump Tweet Was “Call to Arms” Weeks Before Jan. 6 Attack
In December, Trump called for his followers to gather at the Capitol on January 6 for a “wild,” “big protest.”… → Read More
US Multimillionaires’ Wages Rose in 2021, While Bottom 90 Percent Got Pay Cut
The bottom 90 percent got a wage cut in 2021, but the top 0.1 percent got a wage raise of 18.5 percent. → Read More
DC Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Measure to End Tipped Minimum Wage
If it is not repealed, the measure will raise the minimum wage for tipped workers from $5.35 to $16.10 an hour. → Read More
Young Voters Are Driving “Generational Shift” to the Left, Ocasio-Cortez Says
Millennials and Gen Z are taking over the electorate and potentially ushering in a new, progressive era of politics. → Read More
For the First Time, LGBTQ Candidates Are on the Ballot in All 50 States
There are 678 LGBTQ candidates across the country who are on the ballot in the general election. → Read More
Union Filings Grew By 53 Percent This Fiscal Year, Marking Growing Union Wave
The data shows the growing strength and boldness of the labor movement over the past year. → Read More
Sanders, Warren Slam Starbucks for “Unethical and Unlawful” Union Busting
The lawmakers torched the company for withholding wage and benefits increases to union members. → Read More
Workers Have Held More Strikes So Far in 2022 Than in All of 2021, Data Finds
Workers have waged close to 300 strikes this year so far, compared to about 260 strikes last year. → Read More
Ilhan Omar and Ro Khanna’s Offices Overwhelmingly Vote to Unionize
The union says that staffers in other offices have expressed an interest in unionizing. → Read More