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Few new mothers get paid maternity leave. Those who take unpaid leave often go deep into debt to make ends meet.

A campaign that brought together African-Americans and undocumented workers stopped an anti-immigrant bill in its tracks.

Prison labor as the past—and future—of American “free-market” capitalism.

As HB 87 scared away the immigrants who worked its fields, officials in Irwin County, Georgia, scrambled to fill the local detention center, the area’s biggest employer.

On its fiftieth anniversary, the founding declaration of SDS echoes today in democracy movements around the world.

The federal government has the unique ability, and thus responsibility, to set baselines for citizenship, economic security and market rules.

With Karen Handel's resignation, online feminism's victory against the giant cancer charity is complete.

Republicans are using the redistricting process to undermine minority voting power and ensure their party's dominance.

With some of the highest foreclosure rates in the country, the Southern city is fertile ground for the growing Occupy movement. 

With draconian laws like Georgia’s HB 87 hitting women especially hard, women’s groups are taking up the fight for immigrants’ rights.