Economy

Homecare worker gives client pills

Home-Care Workers Clocking 24-Hour Shifts Are Being Paid for Only 13 Hours Home-Care Workers Clocking 24-Hour Shifts Are Being Paid for Only 13 Hours

A New York State rule is standing in the way of home-care workers’ earning their rightful pay, and care recipients’ getting the attention they deserve.

Jan 19, 2018 / Michelle Chen

Immokalee Workers Florida

What Farmworkers Can Teach Hollywood About Ending Sexual Harassment What Farmworkers Can Teach Hollywood About Ending Sexual Harassment

A proven model for creating a safer workplace exists in Florida’s tomato fields.

Jan 18, 2018 / Greg Kaufmann

Republicans Are Trying to Dismantle the Backbone of US Immigration Policy

Republicans Are Trying to Dismantle the Backbone of US Immigration Policy Republicans Are Trying to Dismantle the Backbone of US Immigration Policy

For more than 50 years, family reunification has been a humane and compassionate part of our system.

Jan 16, 2018 / Rep. Pramila Jayapal

DACA protest

We Still Need to Pass the Dream Act. Take Action to Make It Happen We Still Need to Pass the Dream Act. Take Action to Make It Happen

You can also demand that your representatives fight for net neutrality and get started on a campaign to transition your community to 100 percent renewable energy.

Jan 16, 2018 / NationAction

trump battleship

Fortress America Is Crumbling Fortress America Is Crumbling

Trump’s inept one-man diplomacy is wrecking US foreign policy.

Jan 16, 2018 / Alfred McCoy

We Are Parents T-shirt

Defending the Family: The Need for Legal Representation in Child-Welfare Proceedings Defending the Family: The Need for Legal Representation in Child-Welfare Proceedings

More than half of Mississippi parents who walk into family court don’t have a lawyer.

Jan 16, 2018 / Rachel Blustain

Florida State Prison

Florida’s Prison Laborers Are Going On Strike Florida’s Prison Laborers Are Going On Strike

Demanding fair pay for their work and an end to brutal conditions, the inmates are putting pressure on the Florida prison system’s bottom line.

Jan 15, 2018 / John Washington

Without Haiti, the United States Would, in Fact, Be a Shithole

Without Haiti, the United States Would, in Fact, Be a Shithole Without Haiti, the United States Would, in Fact, Be a Shithole

And some other things about the country that Donald Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know.

Jan 12, 2018 / Amy Wilentz

Richard Winfield

Meet the First 2018 Candidate to Run on a Federal Jobs Guarantee Meet the First 2018 Candidate to Run on a Federal Jobs Guarantee

And he’s doing it in deep-red rural Georgia.

Jan 12, 2018 / David Dayen

Housekeeper Rosalinda Franco cleans the glass at Littleton Adventist Hospital in Colorado, May 3, 2016

How to End the Silence Around Sexual-Harassment Settlements How to End the Silence Around Sexual-Harassment Settlements

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, lawmakers are floating bills to ban confidentiality in workplace sexual harassment settlements. But advocates are divided over whether that woul...

Jan 12, 2018 / Stephanie Russell-Kraft

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