Single Moms Take Note: California Considers Raising the Minimum Wage to $13 Single Moms Take Note: California Considers Raising the Minimum Wage to $13
A new study says the change could save lives and improve health statewide—good news for the 40 percent of poor households led by single women.
May 23, 2014 / Blog / Dani McClain
Reports of Worker Abuse Continue at NYU’s Newly Completed Abu Dhabi Campus Reports of Worker Abuse Continue at NYU’s Newly Completed Abu Dhabi Campus
To build the university where Bill Clinton will speak this week, laborers are paid less than what was contracted, are refused their own passports and bank cards and sleep a dozen t...
May 20, 2014 / StudentNation / Helen Holmes, Ari Lipsitz, and StudentNation
Turkey’s Deadly Mining Disaster Reveals Just How Little Was Done to Prevent It Turkey’s Deadly Mining Disaster Reveals Just How Little Was Done to Prevent It
Will the death of over 300 miners spark a revolution against Prime Minister Erdogan’s government?
May 19, 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
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
Why Is This Farm Using Guest Workers as Strike Breakers? Why Is This Farm Using Guest Workers as Strike Breakers?
By law, a company can’t hire H-2A guest workers if it is in a labor dispute with its US workforce. But that is exactly what this Washington State berry grower is trying to do.
May 2, 2014 / David Bacon
As New York’s Construction Industry Booms, Workers’ Lives Are Being Put on the Line As New York’s Construction Industry Booms, Workers’ Lives Are Being Put on the Line
Safety advocates say the government has plenty of tools available to protect workers; it just needs the political will to apply them.
May 2, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
How a Fatal Disaster at Mt. Everest Has Turned Into a Full-Blown Labor Struggle How a Fatal Disaster at Mt. Everest Has Turned Into a Full-Blown Labor Struggle
The sherpas who perform incredibly dangerous work on the mountain have called off this year’s climbing season.
Apr 30, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
There Is No Such Thing As a ‘Typical’ Low-Wage Worker There Is No Such Thing As a ‘Typical’ Low-Wage Worker
With the Senate preparing to hold a procedural vote as early as Wednesday on a proposal to increase the federal minimum wage, it’s worth considering what’s at stake in ...
Apr 29, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
Donald Sterling’s Impolite Racism Donald Sterling’s Impolite Racism
The embattled basketball team owner broke the rules of how one should go about being racist in America.
Apr 28, 2014 / Blog / Mychal Denzel Smith