(Reuters) – Chinese textile firms are increasingly using North Korean factories to take advantage of cheaper labor across the border, traders and businesses in the border city of Dandong told Reuters. The clothes made in North Korea are labeled “Made in China” and exported across the world, they said. Using North Korea … Continue reading North Korea factories humming with ‘Made in China’ clothes, traders say | Reuters

Embattled climate scientists working in 13 various US government agencies threw down the gauntlet before the Trump administration by releasing an over 600-page report on climate change in the US “With significant reductions in … Continue reading A Sobering National Climate Change Report

This chart captures the rise in inequality better than any other chart that I’ve seen. Income gains used to go to the bottom part of the population but are now only going … Continue reading Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart – The New York Times

All economic growth is going to the top 1%. All of it. That’s why the stock market is through the roof yet wages have gone nowhere.   Source: You’re not imagining it: … Continue reading You’re not imagining it: the rich really are hoarding economic growth – Vox

John Abraham: A new study finds 6.5% of global GDP goes to subsidizing dirty fossil fuels That is a lot of money! Source: Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year | John Abraham | Environment | The Guardian Continue reading Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 Trillion per year

IT might make you feel better but tomorrow if the US Federal Government, or Australia or the UK repaid the entirety of its national debt, it would make not one dollar’s difference to your bank account. In fact the economy would tank. “If America repaid all its national debt tomorrow, we very … Continue reading What if every government paid off its national debt?

Gov. Scott Walker’s deal gives Foxconn — which admitted dumping chemicals in a Chinese river — an exemption from statutes that protect Wisconsin wetlands. They are giving the manufacturer of iPhones $3B … Continue reading Foxconn Deal Lets Company Ignore Wisconsin Environmental Protection Laws

Officials have cracked the locked phones seized from protesters at the inauguration—and may be planning to use browsing data and texts against them. Officials seized Trump protesters’ cell phones, cracked their passwords, … Continue reading Feds Crack Trump Protesters’ Phones to Charge Them With Felony Rioting

Researchers find that economic, emissions and population trends point to very small chance Earth will avoid warming more than 2C by century’s end. John Sterman, an academic at the MIT Sloan Sustainability … Continue reading Planet has just 5% chance of reaching Paris climate goal, study says

American parents are coming up with all sorts of plans to cover childcare costs. The total life amount of earnings lost in order for one parent to stay home and raise their … Continue reading The cost of staying home to care for a child

Senator John McCain of Arizona, who just this week returned to the Senate after receiving a diagnosis of brain cancer, cast the decisive vote to defeat the G.O.P.’s “skinny repeal” health care … Continue reading John McCain Casts Decisive Health Care Vote?

Summer temperatures have shifted toward more extreme heat over the past several decades. Source: It’s Not Your Imagination. Summers Are Getting Hotter. – The New York Times Continue reading It’s Not Your Imagination. Summers Are Getting Hotter.