Foxconn Workers Threaten Suicide

Staff / Truthdig Apr 28, 2012 Workers at a Chinese factory owned by the electronics manufacturer Foxconn threatened to leap from the roof of a building in Wuhan in a protest over wages and working conditions, echoing the tragedy of laborers who jumped to their deaths for similar reasons two years earlier at other company plants. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Unaddressed Concerns Over a Pesticide

Staff / Truthdig Sep 5, 2011 In 2006, more than 50 scientists and doctors -- five nobel laureates among them -- wrote an urgent letter to the EPA warning of the dangers of the pesticide methyl iodide. In 2007, the agency approved its use. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chemical Industry Rewrites Environmental Textbooks

Staff / Truthdig Aug 27, 2011 Evidence shows that California school officials yielded to complaints made by a trade group representing U.S. chemical companies and altered environmental textbooks to include industry-supplied messages promoting plastic bags. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Plight of U.S. Workers, by the Numbers

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2011 You already know Americans are overworked. But what are the hard numbers? This collection of charts from definitive sources plainly shows that the biggest industries are hiring the least, the Internet has extended the workday, employed women do more domestic work with less leisure time than men, and more. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Green Checkered Flag for Ford

Staff / Truthdig Jan 28, 2010 Ford Motor Co. has seemingly shifted out of crisis mode and is now reporting a profit of $2.7 billion for 2009, a considerable success given the state of the U.S. auto industry and the sluggish economy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

China Roars Past U.S. to Become No. 1 Auto Market

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2010 With the US economic slump and the seemingly never-ending boom in Chinese manufacturing, it comes as no surprise that China has become the world's biggest car market, with 135 million vehicles sold in 2009 -- or 21 million more than the U. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chinese Electric Car Claims 250-Mile Range

Staff / Truthdig Oct 22, 2009 There's a capitalist mantra that says if one person doesn't do something well enough, someone else will always come along to do it better. Well, it turns out that "one person" is us in this scenario, the "someone else" is Chinese carmaker BYD, and "it" is an electric car that can travel 250 miles on one charge. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

China’s Economy Hums Along

Staff / Truthdig Oct 22, 2009 As the U.S. struggles to recover its footing due to the economic crisis, China is expecting yet another stellar year as it reports that the country's economy is on track to reach its target of 8 percent GDP growth this year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Behind the Label

Staff / Truthdig Aug 29, 2009 An industry group of organic and natural food producers is attempting to develop a standard for non-genetically modified and organic food. Existing labels declaring food "organic" are based as marketing devices, not on an actual standard of rigorous testing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

China Is Here

David Sirota / Truthdig Jul 17, 2009 The planet's already on the brink of resource exhaustion and climate catastrophe, and China is 17 times more populous than America was during our industrial era. If we just sit back and celebrate "miracles," then there's not going to be much of a world left.If we just sit back and celebrate China's "miracle," then there's not going to be much of a world left. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

This Common-Sense Solution Brought to You by the 19th Century

Staff / Truthdig Jan 13, 2009 Barack Obama wants to spend as much as a trillion dollars on the nation's infrastructure, from roads to bridges. A video on his transition Web site even touts the economic advantages of fixing potholes. Why so car-centric? A new article in the Washington Monthly claims that spending some of that money on rail lines instead of roads could pay dividends. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Bailout to Jump-Start Detroit

Staff / Truthdig Dec 10, 2008 Agreement has been reached between the White House and congressional Democrats to offer the U.S. auto industry a $14 billion emergency package aimed at keeping the Big Three going until spring. Also, in the grand tradition of state socialism, the deal includes a new auto "czar" to oversee the restructuring of Detroit. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )