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The story of organized labor in the South is well known. The region has some of the lowest rates of unionization in the country. South…
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Photo: Farmworker Association of Florida.
Restaurant worker and painter José Garcia says “positive thinking makes everything easier.” He has a lot to make easier. Prior to the coronavirus crisis, the…
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At an awards ceremony for Environmental Protection Agency workers July 10, scientist Loreen Targos took over the stage with a sign: “I care about EPA…
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In April the U.S. government carried out its largest workplace raid on immigrants in 10 years, detaining 280 people in Texas. It’s the latest attack…
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What would you do if management could force you to work without pay, lock you out with no consequences, and fire you for going on…
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In the thousands of words spilled for the late George H.W. Bush, you won’t find the names of Argentine workers Pedro Troiani and Carlos Propato.…
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It’s been a busy several weeks on the bad news beat. A white Yale grad student called the police on fellow grad student Lolade Siyonbola…
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“As a sniper I was not usually the victim of a traumatic event, but the perpetrator of violence and death,” recalled Garrett Reppenhegen of Iraq Veterans…
This 2018 audit of poverty, systemic racism, militarism, and environmental devastation in the United States was co-edited by me at the Institute for Policy Studies…