BART Strike: Another Instance of Media Portraying Workers as Greedy BART Strike: Another Instance of Media Portraying Workers as Greedy
The media is back to villainize another strike—this time of BART workers.
Jul 2, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Non-Union Federally Contracted Workers Will Stage Second Strike Today Non-Union Federally Contracted Workers Will Stage Second Strike Today
Today's strike is designed to pressure the president to use his executive authority to raise labor standards for federal contracting.
Jul 2, 2013 / Blog / Josh Eidelson
How America Makes Having a Baby a Nearly Impossible Expense How America Makes Having a Baby a Nearly Impossible Expense
From childbirth to maternity leave to childcare, American women far outspend their peers in the developed world.
Jul 1, 2013 / Blog / Bryce Covert
The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed
Inside the new—and exploitative—temporary economy.
Jul 1, 2013 / Michael Grabell, ProPublica
Greg Kaufmann: Low-Wage Work Is Far From Living-Wage Work Greg Kaufmann: Low-Wage Work Is Far From Living-Wage Work
The Nation's Greg Kaufmann joins Bill Moyers to explain why the need for food stamps is growing.
Jul 1, 2013 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Want to Make Internships More Just? Stop Requiring School Credit Want to Make Internships More Just? Stop Requiring School Credit
By insisting that interns register the internship with their college, publications conveniently skirt legal responsibility to provide monetary compensation.
Jun 28, 2013 / StudentNation / Zach Schonfeld and StudentNation
This Week in Poverty: The Unfinished March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom This Week in Poverty: The Unfinished March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute examines the unfinished—and widely forgotten—agenda of the March on Washington fifty years ago.
Jun 28, 2013 / Blog / Greg Kaufmann
Newark Union Head Barely Wins Re-Election After Zuckerberg-Donation-Funded Reform Plan Newark Union Head Barely Wins Re-Election After Zuckerberg-Donation-Funded Reform Plan
Following a Facebook fortune-funded teacher bonus plan, Newark teachers elected an incumbent president who supports a recent “performance bonus’ for ‘peer re...
Jun 28, 2013 / Blog / Josh Eidelson
Austerity Loses in Massachusetts Austerity Loses in Massachusetts
Ed Markey campaigned against cuts and won 55-44.
Jun 26, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
The Secret Foreign Donor Behind the American Enterprise Institute The Secret Foreign Donor Behind the American Enterprise Institute
The right-wing think tank received big money from Taiwan’s government at the same time that it was churning out policy papers and articles urging US military aid to Taipei.
Jun 25, 2013 / Eli Clifton