In a Pandemic, Service Workers Need Paid Sick Leave — Now
It’s well past time we joined the civilized world by giving workers federally mandated, paid sick leave. Our health and our lives depend on it.
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Should Zoom Be a Public Utility?
Online platforms like Zoom and Skype have become basic, public necessities as our lives are upended by the coronavirus. Should they be nationalized?
100 House Democrats Call for Cap on CEO-Worker Pay Gaps at Bailed-Out Firms
Meanwhile, Republicans have proposed pathetically weak executive pay restrictions for companies relying on taxpayer support.
Not This Time: Watch out for Wall Street in a Pandemic
Back during the Great Recession, we bailed out Wall Street. This time, we need to make sure the bailout is for the rest of us.
The Detroit Organizers Long Demanding Water Justice
As cities and states grapple with the spread of coronavirus, activists remind government why water is a human right and not a commodity.
Coronavirus Prevention That Works For Working People
It should not take a terrifying national emergency for us to wake up to the realization that we all pay the price when we treat people like they don’t matter.
Does the Coronavirus Crisis Have to End with a Wealthier Wealthy?
This time around, let’s use the power of the public purse to reduce inequality.
Supreme Court Poised to Strike a Major Blow to Social and Environmental Protections
Without the power to regulate health, safety, finance, and other critical areas, we’ll be living in a much sicker, more unequal, and more economically unstable world.
Global Mining Corporations Have a Friend in the New Guatemalan Government
The new president has appointed a former mining executive to a high-level post, worrying indigenous communities that have long protested the company’s harmful extraction activities.