Chancellor John Healey will set out his plans for UK taxes on 28 October.

Longtime incumbents in UFCW's Local 8-Golden State are being challenged by an insurgent slate in what may be the local’s first competitive election in decades.

Despite trailing far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round of voting, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defied the odds and secured a fourth presidential term, but the road ahead will not be an...

The agreement between the DOJ and Texas at the center of the case was labelled as “egregious collusion” by opponents.

The post My Town Passed a Data Center Moratorium. Yours Can Too. appeared first on Inequality.org.

The leading candidate for LA city attorney has the backing of the local DSA and vows to regulate Big Tech. Tech investors are spending millions against her. The post The Elon Musk Funder Trying to Swa...

As France erupts with protests and the U.S. midterm elections near, a declining West is answering its crisis with denial, repression and war.

The Republican’s campaign made the plea to help Musk avoid congressional inquiry into his DOGE work.

Trump has repeatedly — and baselessly — suggested that widespread voter fraud may play a role in this year’s races.

While in office, he was a sponsor of four fetal “personhood” bills that aimed to ban nearly all abortions nationwide.

This “severe blow” to independent media is an “unprecedented escalation,” says a journalist who previously worked there.

It’s the beginning of the new Ric Burns documentary on New York City, and Adam Gopnik is choking up. He’s talking about the diversity and tolerance that New York, at its best, embodies. He’s talking a...

The former Hungarian prime minister is “the dream MAGA-conservative candidate,” one US official said.

Over the past five years, the price of consumer goods has dominated American political discourse. From Donald Trump to Zohran Mamdani, winning candidates have used “affordability politics” to articula...

Students were motivated to push the proposal due to drastic cuts in funding for their schools that they had no say in.

Donald Trump’s second term has been a financial boon to the private prison industry.

The incoming class of left-wing insurgents can hold sway in the next Congress—if they work as a bloc.

Alberta is one of the provinces in Canada, a reminder of the old adage that money can’t buy happiness. The province fails to responsibly manage the riches from its oil and gas sector, leaving little...

Officials have “taken significant steps to distinguish” two candidates with the same name on the ballot, they said.

“I’d be lying to you if I told you that yesterday I didn’t double-lock the door, just in case they come to take us down in the middle of the night.” Those were the of Jahiren Noriega, a member of Ecu...

A week before the midterms, voters are worried about corruption. According to a national survey by the Financial Times and Focaldata, a non-partisan research company based in London, about 69 percent...

The post Why More Political Campaigns Should Unionize appeared first on Inequality.org.

Ninety-five percent of Democrats say they’re voting for El-Sayed, and just 4 percent say they’re voting for Rogers.

Chancellor John Healey will reveal the new pay rates in the Budget, and has also announced measures to help households with the cost of living.

As firms like CoreWeave and NVIDIA start to wobble, let’s demand that the public won’t be the one left holding the bag.

The outcome could prove persuasive in other climate litigation or spur new cases.

, the new Paweł Pawlikowski film about Thomas Mann’s 1949 trip to Germany, may be the most powerful film about the current moment — really, the last ten years — that I’ve seen. It’s not about the curr...

The French government was almost desperate for something to happen. Over the weekend, the social movement that started with a series of in mid-September continued with a well-attended, orderly march...

Manufacturers and their customers are using materials made without the clouds of dust that have sickened workers in quartz-cutting shops.

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Locals in a rural area of California were recently startled to see dazzlingly brig...

The black vehicles with tinted windows converged on the bus stop just after 5:30 a.m. It was June 18, 2025, and Pedro Vasquez Perdomo and his co-workers were drinking coffee, waiting for a ride to a c...

When the Daily Yonder let me write about my abandoned childhood home in the Never Summer Mountains of Gould, Colorado, they were probably hoping for something a little more journalistic than what I se...

Photos shared online showed faults appearing on the screens of Apple's first foldable device.

The post This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It. appeared first on ProPublica.

A ballot measure could test the limits of how states can curb corporate influence in politics.

New laws are treating cooling as a necessity rather than a luxury, though what landlords must provide varies widely.

By Lisa Held • October 27, 2026As the midterms approach, the Trump administration’s immigration push is rippling through communities at a high cost.Read the full article →

Oxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action The world’s wealthiest people are not just profiting from the polluting causes of climat...

Most of Planet Earth now knows cruelty is the point of Trump 2. But if anyone implausibly needs more evidence, meet Rev. Edward Nalwamba, a 79-year-old, pro-democracy Ugandan priest who spent over a y...

Luis Sandoval was detained in a Folkston ICE center, where a hunger strike has been ongoing for over two weeks.

Israeli forces have displaced over 3,000 Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank city of Hebron since Friday.

Luiz Inácio ​Lula da Silva’s election victory last night in Brazil is being widely celebrated as one of the great political comebacks of our time: the first time any Brazilian presidential candidate h...

Trump called El-Sayed a “jihadist” and said people like him should never be allowed in the Senate.

An insurgent slate is challenging the longtime incumbents in Local 8-Golden State, one of the largest locals in the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), in what may be the local’s first competit...

What’s on the mind of the ruling class these days? If the pages of are a reliable indicator, it’s the specter of “”: the rising support among young people for taxing billionaires, socializing the eco...

The company will be the first true artificial intelligence company to go public as tech firms continue to invest heavily in AI.

No country treats referendums as less definitive than Canada. Two sovereignty referendums in Quebec have not totally put to bed the independence question in , and in spite of referendum support, the...

Following a stunning, inspiring turnaround driven by mass mobilization of the Brazilian people, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won his fourth presidential election. This achievement marks an unpreceden...

Responding to the large-scale Israeli military operation and mass displacement in Hebron in recent days, Oxfam’s Response Lead in the West Bank, Mustafa Tamaizeh, said: "This is not only a humanitaria...

To fully grasp what has been going on since October 7, 2023, in the territories newly reoccupied by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, it is necessary to examine the pattern of these occupations against prev...

In June 1956, a delegation of renowned British left-wing economists, including Joan Robinson and Maurice Dobb, to Poland to learn about its socialist transformation. The newly installed socialist gov...

The Pentagon and private capital have teamed up to militarize the island nation. The post Bankrolling American Empire in the Philippines appeared first on The Intercept.

The post In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a Representative Who Spent Years Undermining Their Interests appeared first on ProPublica.

At the same time that rural hospitals are finding it difficult to hire enough nurses, rural nursing students, who are more likely to work in their communities, are facing challenges getting into train...

The post Cybersecurity CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware Victims appeared first on ProPublica.

By Lisa Held • October 26, 2026Ecologist Jonathan Lundgren launched the 1,000 Farms Initiative to compare regenerative and conventional farming. Here’s what we know now.Read the full article →

With the 2026 midterm elections approaching and Donald Trump’s approval ratings at , it’s easy to hope that we might someday soon find the politics of Trumpism behind us. But it’s far from clear that...

Israel’s parliamentary elections are fast approaching on October 27, with Benjamin Netanyahu facing a challenge from the opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot. Netanyahu is backed by a coalition of religiou...

“We can do this to any country we want. We can do it here too.” According to a published on September 25, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece, conveyed this message during a Marc...

Novelist says demise of Britain’s ‘incredible’ welfare system and housing struggles have led to deeper divisions The novelist Zadie Smith has said that inequality has made culture clashes feel “existe...

The post A Texas Cop Signed on to Help ICE Deport His Neighbors. It Tore the Town Apart. appeared first on ProPublica.

Economists hope earlier episodes of labor disruption, from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression, can help us prepare for the age of artificial intelligence.

Concerns about utility bills, data centers, and pollution show why Black Americans want action from elected officials.

Mississippi investigators said the shooting was “justified,” but new body camera footage shows the cop firing into the passenger’s side as the car passed by him. The post Bodycam: Cop Was Not in Dange...

Inequality Media co-founder Robert Reich and The Intercept’s Akela Lacy break down the most pressing issues of the midterm elections. The post The Intercept Live in Conversation With Robert Reich appe...

The post After Millions in Stolen SNAP Benefits, Trump Administration Moves to Fight Theft appeared first on ProPublica.

In Mexico, at the world’s largest Volkswagen facility outside of Germany, workers are weighing the risks of a possible strike. The 6,500 workers build the Jetta, Tiguan, and Taos at the company’s Pueb...

The post Ken Paxton Says He’s Tough on Crime. His Trust Invested $600,000 in a Convicted Fraudster’s Company. appeared first on ProPublica.

The Fellowship PAC routed more than half a million dollars in support of Democrats through a firm co-founded by former Trump crypto adviser Bo Hines. The post Giant Crypto Super PAC Funnels Big Money...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you se...

Tune in to Yonder Radio to hear conversations about the role of the rural vote in upcoming midterm elections, how the Gay Rodeo builds community, and about the future of rural youth journalism. The po...

The post Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act. appeared first on ProPublica.

These truly-through-the-looking-glass days, it seems the drunk great-uncle you really didn't wanna ask to dinner is somehow getting worse. Scarily and no longer mirthfully, the befuddled "head" of a G...

By Rebekah Alvey • October 22, 2026Calley Means, a driving force behind the Trump administration’s nutrition efforts, resigned from the administration days ahead of midterm elections.Read the full art...

Today, Public Citizen released a new set of fact sheets that track the toll of the NAFTA-WTO era and today’s chaotic trade policies on the workers, farmers, local communities in all 50 states in the U...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today demanded that a U.S. manufacturer of electroshock weapons stop sending its d...

The nation’s largest and most profitable corporations paid an average federal income tax rate of just 10.4 percent in 2025, the lowest rate documented in more than four decades of research by the Inst...

The prime minister promises to repair decades of regional damage. His government must redistribute wealth to close deadly inequalities Andy Burnham’s call to abandon “40 years of neoliberalism” rests...

TSA agents noticed something was up. “We started seeing people around the airport that you wouldn’t normally see, people in suits,” said Mark Harris, Transportation Security Officer and union steward...

After more than six months fighting against Kroger’s use of non-union subcontractors, members of Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 700 in Indiana won a victory in August, when Kroger announced...

In nearly two years the Trump administration has protected just three species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act and missed dozens of deadlines to make decisions promised in...

The Trump-Vance administration has abandoned its appeal in National Council of Nonprofits et al. v. McMahon, a case brought by a broad coalition of nonprofit organizations, more than a dozen local gov...

The post Nuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims. appeared first on ProPublica.

The post Ballot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail Service appeared first on ProPublica.

The story of food insecurity isn’t just written through black-and-white facts and figures. The story is lived through the people for whom food soon may be harder to reach.  Missouri, like other states...

This story is co-published with KFF Health News. Dianne Williams said she lost weight and lowered her blood pressure thanks to quarterly doctor appointments, monthly phone calls with a nurse, and a bl...

The post Sexual Assaults on Campus No Longer Scrutinized as Closely Under Trump’s Education Department appeared first on ProPublica.

From the family car to the dream kitchen, fossil fuel companies sold a vision of prosperity that depended on their own products. Grist dug up a century of evidence that shows how they did it.

Without central planning or public resources, people in developing countries are pursuing an ad hoc energy transition.

By Rebekah Alvey • October 22, 2026West Virginia was an early adopter of the Make America Healthy Again movement, but those on the ground are disappointed and say food and clean water access is more p...

By Rebekah Alvey • October 22, 2026The Trump administration has called recent drops in nationwide federal food assistance enrollment good news. Food access advocates and hungry recipients disagree.Rea...

By Rebekah Alvey • October 21, 2026A long-awaited proposal is a positive step forward, but could also push food assistant costs to states already facing new budgetary challenges due to the One Big Bea...

The post Colorado Marijuana Regulators Failed to Protect Consumers From Potential Contamination, Audit Finds appeared first on ProPublica.

In a new book, a dissident economist argues that to save democracy, we must democratize the economy.

The post The Global Economy Runs on Care appeared first on Inequality.org.

UltraViolet, a leading national women-led gender-justice organization responsible for numerous impactful victories against sexual predators and tech-facilitated sexual violence, issued the following s...

The post “The River Can’t Be Trusted” appeared first on ProPublica.

Part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed by Congress in 2025, the RHTP was promoted as a way to stabilize the rural healthcare crisis. As part of the legislation, federal health care funding faces...

The post Town Leaders Said They Were Prepared for Floods. First Responders Disagree. appeared first on ProPublica.

By Lisa Held • October 21, 2026After a scramble to replace lost federal dollars, farmers Tim and Rebecca Cooper are now confronting high input prices, and a growing number of people seeking to make en...

By Lisa Held and Rebekah Alvey • October 21, 2026West Virginia residents describe the impact of the past two years of the Trump administration on the food system.Read the full article →

The post The Secret Terms of Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal appeared first on ProPublica.

Today, Unrig the Economy and Americans for Tax Fairness released a new analysis (in English and Spanish) showing that cuts to SNAP enacted under Trump and Congressional Republicans’ tax law have dispr...

By Lisa Held • October 20, 2026President Trump announced his fuel relief program at a rally for Republicans running for office in Kansas.Read the full article →

At least 10 patients with kidney failure near Taiz, a city under a Houthi siege, died because they were unable to get to their dialysis treatments. The post Yemenis Unable to Reach Hospital Are Part o...

New York City unions representing 1 million members launched a new coalition October 15 to defend the right to vote ahead of the midterm elections November 3. A thousand members rallied outside the ci...

The post $55 Billion in Stock Buyback Wealth for Google Oligarchs appeared first on Inequality.org.

How historic housing unaffordability—and resurgent tenant organizing—are reshaping the midterm elections.

The post Micron’s Plan to Spend $35 Billion on Stock Buybacks Is a Slap in the Face to Its Employees appeared first on Inequality.org.

Today, the No Kings Coalition sent an open letter to Meta Platforms, Inc. Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding immediate transparency and public answers regarding the sudden suspension of its of...

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Each day at New River Health in Oak Hill, West Virginia, Lisa Emery finds disheartening signs of what she describes as a slow-motion repeat of t...

The post How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation appeared first on ProPublica.

By Elsa Wenzel • October 20, 2026An exhibit on the experimental space and its impact asks what it means to cultivate a city rooted in care.Read the full article →

Union strength or weakness is often seen only through the light of a strike or lockout. Phil Cohen’s memoir, Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line, tells a different story. Union buildi...

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice monthly newsletter from Open Campus about the role of colleges in rural America. You can join the mailing list at the bot...

Well that was fun. In last week's welcome bit of comic relief, we got the vapid rise and rapid fall - despite requisite blonde hair, faux smile and passing resemblance to Ivanka - of "manifestly unqua...

Letter from 150 scientists, MPs and activists calls for action to protect lower-income and minority-ethnic communities The government must hold an inquiry into the unequal impacts of air pollution, 15...

Human labor fueled the rise of AI. It can also be used to halt it.

New FEC filings show the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has become the dominant funder of the Senate Leadership Fund, the leading Republican Senate super PAC. Musk was responsible for 58% of the...

The post Increasing Portland’s CEO Pay Surtax Would Boost Revenue and Encourage Narrower Pay Gaps appeared first on Inequality.org.

Tune in to Yonder Radio to hear conversations about how rural communities are pushing back about Flock cameras, a tribe seeking to manage a bird sanctuary on the Olympic Peninsula and how climate chan...

Editor’s Note: This Q&A originally published in our Path Finders newsletter on August 16, 2021. This week, we’re republishing it in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  If you want to hear more from Rob...

Exclusive: Isabella Weber prescribes a common-sense solution to poverty, inequality and fascism – making life’s essentials affordable for all The trouble with economists, Isabella Weber believes, is t...

A ceasefire was supposed to bring calm to a Gaza devastated by genocide. Instead, Israel not only continues to violate it, but now a "yellow line" has split Gaza in half and enabled even more violence...

A Fox News poll has revealed that corruption is a leading issue for voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with a whopping 88 percent saying they are concerned about corruption, including 60 perc...

In Baxter County, Ark., a sheriff cut off phone access at the jail. The Trump administration paid attention, and the decision could have nationwide implications.

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice-monthly newsletter from Open Campus about the role of colleges in rural America. You can join the mailing list at the bot...

I watched a variety of rural films at TIFF, ranging from devastating documentaries to crowd-pleasing comedies. Here are seven films to be on the lookout for. The post How Was Rurality Portrayed at...

By Christina Cooke • October 15, 2026How the daughter of author Wendell Berry and executive director of the Berry Center advocates for agrarian ideals.Read the full article →

The devastation goes on apace at the teeny toxic hands of the clowns and hacks in power (maybe not much longer?). Topping the abuses: An assault by Homeland Security (sic) thugs on the home of a duly...

By Lisa Held • October 14, 2026According to a new analysis, ground beef prices at the grocery store have only come down by 2 percent, but prices paid to beef producers decreased more than 12 percent.R...

The final inflation report before the 2026 election — showing price increases and stagnant wages — spelled bad political news for the White House.

The post The Plundering Oligarch You Haven’t Heard Of appeared first on Inequality.org.

Ethical shopping | Ottolenghi’s fanbase | Successful Lib Dem leaders | Global taxation policies | Good riddance to billionaires Happily, Amazon thinks nothing about me because it doesn’t know me (I’ve...

Inflation has made basic goods hard to afford and attitudes toward inequality have changed, studies from the Pew Research Center showed.

The post New York Is Getting Richer. Most New Yorkers Aren’t. appeared first on Inequality.org.

The post AI Has a Labor Problem appeared first on Inequality.org.

On a hot morning in late August of 2026, 18-year-old Kenzie Garcia climbed into a metal chute containing a steer, or castrated bull. She was nervous but determined to improve her skills as a chute dog...

By Elsa Wenzel • October 14, 2026Farmers are organizing against equipment and seed companies profiting from their data and using it against them. Similar laws in other states have so far failed.Read t...

Fatou Traore se dirigía a su trabajo como personal de limpieza en los Hospitales y Clínicas de la Universidad de Iowa (UIHC) en la mañana del jueves 24 de septiembre, cuando agentes de ICE la detuvier...

Fatou Traore was on her way to work as a custodian at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) on the morning of Thursday, September 24, when ICE agents detained her. Despite having legal...

Six and a half months into a lockout, the oil giant is appealing workers’ unemployment, a move that could force union members to pay back the benefits they've received.

For Michael Sayen, visiting the local library after hours is a great way to get work done, or seek respite from the weather, regardless of what day it is.  “We just had Labor Day, the library is close...

By Kelly Larsen • October 13, 2026Conservation efforts can help prevent the loss of land that is currently stymying small farming.Read the full article →

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, winning 68 percent of the vote in member balloting for the union’s top officers.

Members of the United Auto Workers overwhelmingly backed another term for Shawn Fain and his United UAW slate of union candidates, showing support for his vision of a fighting labor movement.

By Lisa Held • October 9, 2026The agency says the effort will bolster seed sovereignty and food security, but advocates say it doesn’t adequately address corporate control of seeds.Read the full artic...

Palestinian cultural workers living through apartheid, occupation, and genocide are calling for solidarity from their counterparts abroad.

A round-up of this month’s signs we are living in late stage capitalism.

Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of Toledo, Ohio residents to discuss the morning of the industrial disaster and life since.

Will we one day look back at America's giant pickup trucks as a gauche fad that made our streets uglier, roads deadlier and our world worse?

The post How the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Is Harming People and How They’re Responding appeared first on Inequality.org.

John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas is the least affordable city in the US for the middle class, a recent Brookings Institution analysis found Nestled between two mountain ranges at the crook of cen...

Why unseal the Epstein files when they make such a sturdy pedestal?

Private equity firms and corporate investors have bought up hundreds of thousands of homes, driving up rents and prices while turning the American Dream into a subscription service that benefits Wall Street.

Employers steal an estimated $50 billion per year from workers through wage theft — more than all property crimes in America combined. Yet it's workers, not executives, who face consequences.

100 million Americans carry medical debt while health insurance company CEOs take home tens of millions per year. The system isn't broken — it's working exactly as designed for the people at the top.

Family farms across America are being squeezed out by corporate mega-farms, predatory contracts, and a system designed to benefit agribusiness giants at the expense of the people who actually grow our food.

A massive leak of nearly 12 million documents exposed how world leaders, billionaires, and celebrities use offshore accounts and shell companies to hide their wealth and avoid taxes.

ProPublica obtained a vast trove of IRS data on the tax returns of the wealthiest Americans, revealing that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes compared to ordinary workers.