Why Not Invest Your IRA in HoboNickels and PizzaCoin?
iridi/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re ready to swap your smelly old greenbacks for a virtual wad of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum are not the only games in town. CoinMarketCap tracks nearly 1,500 forms of digital currency. Their often baffling names offer little clue as to whether…
The Sierra Club’s New Video Attacks Ford for Playing Along with Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a video made public Wednesday, the Sierra Club denounced Ford Motor Company for lobbying the Trump administration and “#PollutingPruitt” to roll back vehicle efficiency and and emission standards. The environmental organization timed the airing of their new video with the D.C. Auto Show, at which Ford isn’t showing…
Experts Aren’t Too Worried About the Bitcoin Bubble…Yet
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since last fall, cryptocurrency—Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.—has been making its way into the mainstream. No longer merely the arena of Silicon Valley geeks, it became table talk over Thanksgiving. Some people mortgaged their homes to buy bitcoin. Businesses began talking about “blockchain”…
The GOP Wants to Slash Food Stamps. Here’s Why That’s a Stupid Idea.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress have publicly flaunted their desire to slash food aid for the poor. The deficit-swelling tax cut package they passed in late 2017 will embolden their efforts later this year, when the twice-a-decade farm bill—which funds the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
It’s Been 50 Years Since MLK Jr. Declared War on Poverty. The Economy for Black Americans Still Stinks
Horace Cort/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Americans reflect on the first Martin Luther King Jr. Day of the Trump administration and prepare for the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination, it’s as good a time as any to measure our world against the one Dr. King dared us…
Black Unemployment Is at a Historic Low—But Don’t Thank Trump
Nicholas Aikens waits to talk to employers at a career fair in Memphis, TennesseeKyle Kurlick/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs reports usually don’t make much of a splash, but the latest one, released last Friday, contained a quiet surprise. While the overall jobs…