We’re Going to Be Talking About Reparations This Year We’re Going to Be Talking About Reparations This Year
The labor of generations of black bodies has created massive amounts of wealth for everyone but the people whose work was exploited. And we’ve continued to suffer the consequ...
May 16, 2014 / Blog / Mychal Denzel Smith
The Fast-Food Worker Movement Has Gone Global The Fast-Food Worker Movement Has Gone Global
In a show of international solidarity, scores of fast food workers in about thirty countries walked off the job to push for improved working conditions and higher wages.
May 16, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
Impossible Choices: Fast-Food Workers Explain Why They’re Striking Impossible Choices: Fast-Food Workers Explain Why They’re Striking
The campaign for higher wages in the fast food industry goes global.
May 15, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
Why I Support the Fast-Food Workers Strike Why I Support the Fast-Food Workers Strike
We are in the midst of a grassroots populist movement designed to rebalance the tilted economic scales in our country.
May 15, 2014 / Rep. Keith Ellison
Entertainment Companies Get $1.5 Billion in Tax Breaks Each Year—Yet They’re Offshoring Musicians’ Jobs Entertainment Companies Get $1.5 Billion in Tax Breaks Each Year—Yet They’re Offshoring Musicians’ Jobs
Currently, 39 states and Puerto Rico subsidize the entertainment business to the tune of about $1.5 billion. Yet many of these agreements lack concrete mandates to direct how compa...
May 14, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
No More Tale of Two Cities? How de Blasio’s 2015 Budget Could Make New York More Equal No More Tale of Two Cities? How de Blasio’s 2015 Budget Could Make New York More Equal
Could we finally be leaving Mayor Bloomberg’s Gilded City behind?
May 12, 2014 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
NYU Just Dropped Its Contract With JanSport—Why Is That a Victory for Global Labor Rights? NYU Just Dropped Its Contract With JanSport—Why Is That a Victory for Global Labor Rights?
New York University’s Student Labor Action Movement got the the administration to finally act responsibility when doing business with the global fashion industry.
May 12, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
#FastFoodGlobal: How the International Struggle Against McDonald’s Could Bring a $15 Minimum Wage to New York City #FastFoodGlobal: How the International Struggle Against McDonald’s Could Bring a $15 Minimum Wage to New York City
A year ago, many might have laughed at the idea of paying the plebe behind the counter $15 an hour. But now that workers have raised their voices, a living wage seems like a deeply...
May 9, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
Does Egypt’s Resurgent Labor Unrest Pose a Threat to Sisi’s Power? Does Egypt’s Resurgent Labor Unrest Pose a Threat to Sisi’s Power?
For months, strikes and other protests have crippled a number of industries. But the new militancy is fragmented and has confined itself to economic grievances.
May 8, 2014 / Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Mothers’ Thankless Work Building an Economy for the Rest of Us Mothers’ Thankless Work Building an Economy for the Rest of Us
Women put in long hours inside and outside the home, making a more prosperous economy, and we reward them with crappy public policy.
May 8, 2014 / Blog / Bryce Covert