Paid Sick and Family Leave Can’t Wait
For frontline workers, the financial strain caused by a lack of paid leave can be just as stressful as the virus itself.
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Essential Workers Deserve $15 An Hour
We care for your parents, children, and homes. We should make enough to care for our own, too.
Small Towns and Rural Communities Need Transit, Too
Millions of rural Americans don’t have a car. With the pandemic battering transit agencies, they’re being totally isolated.
Danny Glover: Why I’m in Alabama with Amazon Workers
The Hollywood actor is mobilizing support for warehouse workers who are making their mark on the long history of southern organizing.
Caregivers Need Care Too
A new documentary exposes the need for a federal lifeline for child care providers and working mothers.
Five Painful Charts on Covid and Black America
This Black History Month, hard data reveal how the pandemic has widened racial divides.
The ‘Pre-Existing Condition’ That Doomed the U.S. Covid Response?
The answer from a blue-ribbon medical commission on the Trump years: decades of rising inequality.
The Pandemic is Sparking a Wave of Union Drives on College Campuses
In Arizona, two universities are spearheading an effort to unionize the entire state’s higher education workforce.
Poultry Industry Bosses are No Longer Calling All the Shots in Washington
In the new political landscape, poultry workers have already managed to scuttle a Trump administration reform that would’ve made their jobs even more dangerous.