What Fast-Food Workers Are Fighting For What Fast-Food Workers Are Fighting For
The New York State Labor Department’s fast food Wage Board this week showed why a pay raise can’t come soon enough for fast food workers.
Jun 17, 2015 / Michelle Chen
How to Defend the Indefensible How to Defend the Indefensible
The issue isn't police misconduct—the issue is rap music and baggy pants!
Jun 16, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow
The US Base More Secret Than Guantánamo The US Base More Secret Than Guantánamo
One US military base, decades of lies, and a crime that has never been faced or righted.
Jun 15, 2015 / David Vine
The Obama Administration Is Expanding a Program to Fix Up Public Housing—Too Bad the Program Might Also Privatize It The Obama Administration Is Expanding a Program to Fix Up Public Housing—Too Bad the Program Might Also Privatize It
Is the Rental Assistance Development Program the best, flawed option for saving public housing—or a new attempt to dismantle it?
Jun 9, 2015 / Jake Blumgart
Life and Death in Brownback’s Kansas Life and Death in Brownback’s Kansas
Twenty-one states have refused to expand Medicaid, leaving millions of sick Americans without decent healthcare.
Jun 2, 2015 / Feature / Kai Wright
A Real Anti-Poverty Movement Can’t Be Led By Millionaires A Real Anti-Poverty Movement Can’t Be Led By Millionaires
Those of us who spend our lives worrying about making rent and buying our kids new crayons need better representation.
May 28, 2015 / Linda Tirado
Want to Cut Welfare? There’s an App for That. Want to Cut Welfare? There’s an App for That.
Conservatives explore cutting benefits behind a high-tech facade.
May 27, 2015 / Feature / Virginia Eubanks
Bosses Are Turning Poverty-Wage Workers Into ‘Managers’—and Barring Them From Overtime in the Process Bosses Are Turning Poverty-Wage Workers Into ‘Managers’—and Barring Them From Overtime in the Process
Employers exploit legal loopholes to keep poverty-wage workers from earning overtime wages.
May 18, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Hillary Clinton Wants to Help Families at the Bottom. So Will She Change Her Mind About Welfare Reform? Hillary Clinton Wants to Help Families at the Bottom. So Will She Change Her Mind About Welfare Reform?
Clinton said as recently as the 2008 campaign that welfare reform was a success, but its track record has proven otherwise for the country’s poorest.
May 11, 2015 / Bryce Covert
Nepal’s Double Disaster Nepal’s Double Disaster
Long before the quake, Nepal suffered the rupturing shocks of global capitalism.
May 8, 2015 / Michelle Chen