Hugh Baran

Hugh Baran is an American studies major and a member of the Undergraduate Organizing Committee, a student labor group, at Yale. He is the executive director of Students for a New American Politics, a student-run PAC that funds fellowships for students to work on progressive Congressional campaigns for a summer. Hugh is also a staff columnist for the Yale Daily News, writing a column titled "Progressive Futures."

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  • Learning About Labor

    December 15, 2008

    This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the new President should restore workers' rights ASAP.

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