The last year of inflation has disproportionately hurt low-income and nonwhite families — those with the least flexibility in their monthly budgets to absorb higher prices.
Is the cure for inflation worse than the disease?
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Railway Workers Fight Shows Need for Paid Sick and Family Leave + More Updates
“It staggers the imagination that in September 2022 the workers who keep the trains running did not have even one sick day to care for themselves.”
Railway Workers Fight Shows Need for Paid Sick and Family Leave, Says Economist
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Live updates: Railroad workers livid over deal brokered by Biden and unions to prevent strike
Blinken signals zero change from failed Trump Venezuela policy
Venezuela’s Sore Winners: Opposition, Media Blast Maduro Interference in Barinas Election Won by His Opposition
It’s worth imagining Russia imposing starvation sanctions on the U.S., but the U.S. still openly allowing Russian-backed candidates to run in elections. Now imagine those candidates being allowed to win, but still complaining about a lack of “advertising presence.”
Venezuela’s Sore Winners: Opposition, Media Blast Maduro Interference in Barinas Election Won by His Opposition by Joe Emersberger
Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK
To Western Media, Prosecuting Bolivian Coup Leaders Is Worse Than Leading a Coup
To Western Media, Prosecuting Bolivian Coup Leaders Is Worse Than Leading a Coup
Brutal dictators supported by Washington have no reason to doubt that establishment journalists and big NGOs will try very hard to keep them out of jail. Removing the threat of US -backed coups from the world will involve a constant struggle against Western media and the sources they present to us as reliable.
Ignoring Repression and Dirty Tricks in Coverage of Ecuador’s Election
With Black and Jewish Candidates in Deep South, Dems Projected to Win Georgia and Take Senate–Putting Biden’s ‘FDR-Sized’ Promise to the Test
The duo’s historic wins lock the Senate into a 50-50 split, which will be tipped in favor of the Democrats by another path-breaking politician: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to assume that role and the soon-to-be Senate tiebreaker.
President Maduro: “If the Opposition Wins 6-D Parliamentary Elections, I’m Leaving” and Other Venezuelan Updates
What the OAS Did to Bolivia
According to the Los Angeles Times, “Carlos Trujillo, the U.S. ambassador to the OAS, had steered the group’s election-monitoring team to report widespread fraud and pushed the Trump administration to support the ouster of Morales.”
This week, US Representatives Jan Schakowsky and Chuy Garcia called for the US Congress to “investigate the role of the OAS in Bolivia over the past year, and ensure that taxpayers’ dollars do not contribute to the overthrow of democratically elected governments, civil conflict, or human rights violations.”
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 