FedEx and UPS—two of America’s biggest employers—have been publicly pushing tax cuts as job creators even as they plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for a coming wave of automation at their distribution centers and along their delivery lines, corporate documents show. Neither company has said what effect their automation plans may have on their job numbers, but …
FedEx, UPS Push for Tax Cuts As Documents Show Them Sinking Millions Into Automation
Above: Left: UPS CEO David Abney (Photo via UPS.com); Right: FedEx CEO Fred Smith (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) By Steve Horn First in a series on FedEx, UPS, and their positions on tax cuts and jobs FedEx and UPS—two of America’s biggest employers—have been publicly pushing tax cuts as job creators even as they plan to spend hundreds of …
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Jonathan Larsen Managing editor, TYT Investigates Welcome to TYT Investigates, launched by The Young Turks to do the kind of original, enterprise, investigative journalism that implicates policy issues too often ignored by national media. We’re not here to be the story, we’re here to break the story. Because it’s way past time our mainstream civic and political discourse grappled with …
Domestic Violence is a Precursor to Mass Shootings
By Naomi LaChance The man suspected of firing dozens of rounds on congressional Republicans this morning also had a history of domestic violence, documents show. James T. Hodgkinson, 66, was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend in 2006. He died this morning after a shootout with police. Five people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, were injured in the 6 a.m. shooting. In 2006, at …
How Trump Air Traffic Control Plan Could Mean Higher Ticket Prices
By Naomi LaChance President Trump’s proposal this week to create a corporation to regulate air traffic control follows similar initiatives in Canada and the United Kingdom, where air space privatization brought increased costs for passengers, job cuts, and financial bailout. The proposal to create a not-for-profit corporation to control airspace, which supporters say could speed up the implementation of newer aviation technology called NextGen, is …
CrowdStrike, The DNC’s Security Firm, Was Under Contract With The FBI
By Michael Tracey Claims of “Russian interference” have been ubiquitous in U.S. political discourse for almost a full year now; these often amount to a melange of allegations ranging from “hacking” to “influence campaigns” to “online trolls” sent by the Kremlin to harangue unsuspecting Midwestern voters. “Hacking,” however, remains the centerpiece of the narrative — the idea that Russian state actors “hacked” …
Trump’s Arms-Deal Promise Is True, It Will Create Jobs — in Saudi Arabia
By Naomi LaChance Although the massive U.S.-Saudi arms deal announced Saturday has been sold by President Trump as a way to create jobs, public statements by military contractors indicate that many of those jobs will not be in the U.S., but in Saudi Arabia. What’s more, a TYT Politics review of SEC filings by the military contractors involved suggests that …