More Perfect Union

Rue 21 filed for bankruptcy and is closing all of its stores. If you don't know what's going on, a worker reportedly put this in the window of one of the stores to fill people in.

A new bipartisan bill in Ohio would force the Cincinnati Bengals to play home games on a real grass field instead of artificial turf. Data shows that artificial turf leads to more injuries, and the Bengals have long had the most dangerous turf in the NFL.

Public schools in Alaska are crumbling, literally and metaphorically. Alaska’s traditional public schools have dropped into the bottom five worst-performing in the nation. Years of funding shortages have brought the once-great public school system to the brink of collapse—and a right-wing governor is standing in the way of fixing it.

NEW: America has a credit card cartel—and it's about to get bigger. Capital One and Discover want to merge into the largest credit card company in the U.S. Swipe fees and interest rates will rise even higher, and banks will make billions. This merger must be stopped.

CEOs really hate when you have a life outside of generating their profits.

BREAKING: Norfolk Southern will pay the U.S. government $310 million for the catastrophic train derailment in East Palestine, OH. $235 million will go towards past and future costs relating to the environmental clean-up. $15 million is a civil penalty for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act. Norfolk Southern also settled a class action lawsuit from East Palestine residents last month for $600 million.

Singapore Airlines is giving their staff a bonus worth eight months of salary. This move comes after the airline saw record profits of almost $2 billion last year. This is what companies could be doing. Especially when the airline industry in North America made over $14 billion in profit last year.

Every day there's a new article trying to shame workers for existing.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a landmark law banning junk fees across the economy. The law is sweeping. Junk fees will be outlawed for delivery apps, concert ticket sites, hotels, travel, restaurants, and much more. People will save thousands of dollars a year.

BREAKING: The Justice Department and 30 U.S. states have filed a sweeping lawsuit charging Live Nation-Ticketmaster with running illegal monopolies over ticketing and concert promotion. “It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster," Attorney General Merrick Garland said.