Will Congress Turn Its Back on Jobless Americans? Will Congress Turn Its Back on Jobless Americans?
A minority in the House of Representatives has blocked reauthorization of federal unemployment benefits. If Congress doesn't act quickly, the long-term unemployed will start dr...
Nov 23, 2010 / Christine Owens
Meg Whitman Pays $144 Million for her Own Campaign, $5,500 to Her Housekeeper Meg Whitman Pays $144 Million for her Own Campaign, $5,500 to Her Housekeeper
Fox News called the settlement "chump change."
Nov 19, 2010 / The Notion / Jon Wiener
Profits, Pensions and the Return of GM Profits, Pensions and the Return of GM
Today marked the return of automaker GM to public trading on the stock market. All hail the American automakers, returning to profitability in a little over a year after bankruptcy...
Nov 18, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Paycheck Fairness Dies in the Senate Paycheck Fairness Dies in the Senate
Republicans block equal pay legislation—for this Congress, and for many to come.
Nov 18, 2010 / Denise DiStephan
The Breakdown: How Can Obama Help Organized Labor? The Breakdown: How Can Obama Help Organized Labor?
With no help likely to come from Congress, Dorian Warren and Chris Hayes ask: what can Obama, his National Labor Relations Board appointees and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis can d...
Nov 12, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
Commentary: Betsy Reed on Lou Dobbs’s Immigration Contradictions Commentary: Betsy Reed on Lou Dobbs’s Immigration Contradictions
All the attention given to Dobbs's hypocrisy risks obscuring the deeper lesson to learn from this case: that undocumented workers are so thoroughly woven into the fabric of our e...
Oct 19, 2010 / Video / The Nation on Grit TV
Learning From Lou Dobbs’s Hypocrisy Learning From Lou Dobbs’s Hypocrisy
Fighting for the labor rights of undocumented workers will improve the working conditions for all Americans, argues Isabel Macdonald in the Guardian.
Oct 19, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room
The Wall Comes Tumbling Down The Wall Comes Tumbling Down
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers signed a historic agreement between farmworkers and a major grower.
Oct 18, 2010 / The Notion / Greg Kaufmann
Indocumentados Trabajaron Para Dobbs Indocumentados Trabajaron Para Dobbs
Lou Dobbs regularmente arremetía contra los “empleadores de ilegales.” Sin embargo, el propio Dobbs utilizó mano de obra de indocumentados para qu...
Oct 18, 2010 / Isabel Macdonald
Lou Dobbs and Isabel Macdonald Face Off on MSNBC’s ‘The Last Word’ Lou Dobbs and Isabel Macdonald Face Off on MSNBC’s ‘The Last Word’
In an exclusive, two-part debate between Lou Dobbs and The Nation's Isabel Macdonald on MSNBC's The Last Word, host Lawrence O'Donnell declares Dobbs on trial for hypocrisy in ...
Oct 8, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room