Labor

Women Won’t Have Equality Until Dads Stay Home

Women Won’t Have Equality Until Dads Stay Home Women Won’t Have Equality Until Dads Stay Home

Here’s how it works.

Apr 20, 2016 / Bryce Covert

School children sitting in class

Want Your Kids to Get a Good Education? Support Their Teachers’ Workplace Rights Want Your Kids to Get a Good Education? Support Their Teachers’ Workplace Rights

A new lawsuit pits teachers’ rights against students’ access to quality education. That argument doesn’t hold water.

Apr 20, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Bernie Sanders leaves the Vatican

Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican

Sanders’s hope for a moral economy is amplified at the Vatican.

Apr 19, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Sanders Meets with Native American Leaders

Bernie Sanders Is Courting Indigenous Peoples—Even Those Who Pledged Not to Vote Bernie Sanders Is Courting Indigenous Peoples—Even Those Who Pledged Not to Vote

The presidential hopeful is linking his “political revolution” with the concerns of Native Americans.

Apr 18, 2016 / Andrew Bard Epstein

Kshama Sawant $15 minimum wage protest

Hillary Was Nowhere to Be Seen in the Fight for 15—I Should Know Hillary Was Nowhere to Be Seen in the Fight for 15—I Should Know

Hillary’s “support” is welcome, and a sign that our movement has come far, but let’s be clear: She hasn’t always supported a $15 minimum wage. 

Apr 18, 2016 / Kshama Sawant

Bookshelf

Want to Diversify Publishing? Unionize. Want to Diversify Publishing? Unionize.

Pie charts and hashtags can temporarily embarrass publishers, but the solution may require bringing worker power to bear.

Apr 18, 2016 / J.C. Pan

Anita Hill, Reluctant Hero

Anita Hill, Reluctant Hero Anita Hill, Reluctant Hero

Hill didn’t want to have to speak for all of us, but she did. HBO’s Confirmation serves as yet another reminder that her voice continues to reverberate, even today.

Apr 17, 2016 / Kristal Brent Zook

Crumpled dollar

The Average Woman Loses Over $10,000 Dollars Every Year to the Gender Pay Gap The Average Woman Loses Over $10,000 Dollars Every Year to the Gender Pay Gap

It’s 2016 and women are still earning just 79 cents for every dollar made by men.

Apr 15, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Striking Verizon workers

40,000 Verizon Workers Launch One of the Biggest Strikes of the Decade 40,000 Verizon Workers Launch One of the Biggest Strikes of the Decade

Can the strike at Verizon help kickstart the American labor movement?

Apr 15, 2016 / Cole Stangler

A demonstrator supports bailing out Puerto Rico

Orwell in Puerto Rico: Congress ‘Promises’ a New Dictatorship Orwell in Puerto Rico: Congress ‘Promises’ a New Dictatorship

It says it’s going to resolve the island’s debt fairly, but the PROMESA bill establishes an authoritarian collection agency for hedge funders.

Apr 15, 2016 / Nelson Denis

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