North Dakota GOP senators voted to increase their own meal reimbursements, 10 days after voting against a bill to expand free school lunches for low-income students
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U.S. companies are now spending about 90 percent of their profits on stock buybacks and dividends for shareholders.
That means none of that money is going to workers, and none of it is being reinvested in the company's infrastructure.
NEW: The NY Times reveals that low-wage restaurant workers have been unknowingly funding the industry's powerful lobbying arm, the National Restaurant Association, as it worked to kill minimum wage increases around the country.
Here's how the scheme works:
NEW: Moderna is planning to increase the price of its Covid vaccine over 400%.
After U.S. taxpayers contributed $1 billion to the development of the vaccine, the company is gouging taxpayers to make shareholders rich.
HHS must step in to lower the price of this lifesaving drug.