usa 4 day week
After success stories from Iceland and news about the large-scale field trial in Great Britain, a pilot project on the 4-day week is now starting in the USA. 38 companies are testing the 4-day week...
United States has prevented a Chinese aid shipment of medical supplies to Cuba to combat the novel coronavirus. The North American transport company withdrew from the contract "at the last minute", reports the Cuban ambassador...
Apple Union Towson (Foto: Machinists Union/Twitter)
In the US state of Maryland, employees at an Apple Store have voted to form a union. At the Towson store, 65 of the 110 employees voted in favour of the union. For years, Apple...
Cleveland, USA was once a booming industrial city. When many of the local companies moved to low-wage countries, the city's economy and social fabric collapsed. Mass unemployment and poverty resulted. Twelve years ago, the first...
Houston: The City helps homeless people with the "housing first" approach
Over the past 10 years, homelessness in Houston has dropped by 63%. Double the decrease seen anywhere else in the U.S. The city helped 25,000 people out of homelessness. So what does Houston do better...
Corona crisis makes the richest even richer: The assets of US billionaires increase by $434 billion during the American lockdown period. The biggest gains were recorded by Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Mark...
US abortion Roe vs Wade
The conservative majority of the Supreme Court has overturned the right to abortion in the USA - opposing the clear majority of the US population. Abortion rights have been in force in the USA for 50...
George Floyd is dead. He was murdered because he was black. 46-year-old Floyd was choked by a Minneapolis police officer during an arrest. George Floyd is not the first victim of black police brutality: According...
TikTok stars amazon
Solidarity with Amazon workers on TikTok: More than 70 young and influential TikTok influencers refuse to advertise for Amazon on their social media channels. They will not do so until Amazon drastically improves working conditions...
The global system of news agencies. Picture: Unsplash
How does a news agency work? Where does the newspaper get the information from? We want to know what's happening around us and why. What we can't see for ourselves, we like to be told: Online,...