Europe Doesn’t Like the Republican Tax Bill
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s not just Americans who are getting screwed by the Republican tax bill: Europe’s five largest economies on Monday warned the U.S. its planned corporate tax reform could breach world trade rules and violate double-taxation treaties the U.S. has signed….“It is important that the U.S.…
Hüsker Dü’s Glorious Racket
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Album Review Hüsker DüSavage Young DüNumero Group Big HassleAlong with R.E.M., the Replacements and a host of less-celebrated acts, the St. Paul, Minn. trio Hüsker Dü revitalized the concept of the American Rock’n’Roll band in the ‘80s. Mixing the furious noise of punk and metal…
Republicans Really, Really Hate the Press
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here are a couple of interesting tidbits from the 2017 Poynter Media Trust Survey. We all know that trust in the press has been on a long downward slide, especially among Republicans, but the results from 2017 are a bit surprising: Among Republicans, trust took…
Raw Data: The Prime-Age Labor Force Participation Rate
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is the labor force participation rate for prime-age men and women over the past two decades: In 20 years, the trend participation rate has dropped 4 percentage points for men and 3 percentage points for women. This is only for people aged 25-54, so…
Trump Doesn’t Care About Climate Change. But a New Study Explains Why the Business Community Should.
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Surging temperatures and risings seas already threaten to upend industries from real estate to agriculture to insurance, leaving coastal properties swamped, outdoor workers overheated, and policies vulnerable to catastrophic new risks. Add manufacturing to that list. One extra day of temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit…
Add Alaska Native Tribes to the Long List of Casualties From the Republican Tax Plan
Art Wolfe/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For tribal people in northern Alaska, a Republican tax overhaul that was hastily cobbled together in congressional backrooms 3,000 miles away has raised fears that their entire way of life…