Kevin Desouza and Kiran Somvanshi examine a recent blockchain pilot project in West Virginia as a model to make voting easier and more transparent. All voting should move to blockchain as quickly … Continue reading How blockchain could improve election transparency

Research gives estimates on the longer lives that are now possible in the country. While the US moves in the wrong direction. Source: Four Years After Declaring War on Pollution, China Is … Continue reading Four Years After Declaring War on Pollution, China Is Winning

A new report from Oxfam highlights a global system that rewards the super-rich This is not sustainable. Source: A ‘Billionaire Bonanza’ Is Driving Global Inequality | Time Continue reading 82% of the World’s Wealth Went to the Richest 1% in 2017

Working In These Times is dedicated to providing independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and struggles for workers’ rights. A job guarantee will be required for us to start addressing … Continue reading It’s Time for the Climate Movement to Embrace a Federal Jobs Guarantee

  “Temperature affects the fundamental building blocks of economies.” Fighting climate change could generate trillions in income for people as well. Source: Limiting climate change will benefit economies around globe Continue reading Fighting climate change could save the world trillions of dollars

The duchess wants to champion female empowerment. Letting women participate fully in the workforce would be a good start, says the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott Some good ideas in here actually. Source: The answer to Britain’s productivity crisis? Meghanomics | Larry Elliott | Opinion | The Guardian Continue reading The answer to Britain’s productivity crisis? Meghanomics

Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact Is it really necessary for us to destroy all other living beings … Continue reading Human race just 0.01% of all life but has eradicated most other living things

Supreme Court rules on workers’ rights and forced arbitration. More worker’s rights get taken away by the conservative Supreme Court in another 5-4 decision. This ruling states that workers cannot band together … Continue reading Supreme Court deals defeat to workers’ rights, upholding arbitration for individuals only

It all became real the summer before my senior year of college. It was 2010, and my home phone still had a cord, which I wrapped around my fingers as I waited … Continue reading I’ve Paid $18,000 To A $24,000 Student Loan, & I Still Owe $24,000

Once an outsider, her radical economic thinking won over Wall Street. Now she’s changing the Democratic Party. Kelton’s core idea is that the government can’t run out of money or go bankrupt, … Continue reading Stephanie Kelton Has The Biggest Idea In Washington

The bug allowed one Carnegie Mellon researcher to track anyone’s cell phone in real time. Also, the fact that your cell phone company is actually SELLING your real-time location data to this … Continue reading Cell phone tracking firm exposed millions of Americans’ real-time locations 

In a monumental decision that will resonate through election season, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 52-47 to reinstate the net neutrality protections the Federal Communications Commission decided to repeal last December. … Continue reading Senate Votes to Save Net Neutrality, Proving Shame Still Works Sometimes