Waking the Sleeping Giant of the Low-Income Voting Bloc
The Poor People’s Campaign is planning 42 weeks of actions to mobilize this potentially powerful yet often ignored segment of the electorate.
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Sustaining Rosa Parks’s Struggle For Transit Equity
Transit Equity Day 2024 offers opportunities for reflection and participation.
6 Takeaways from the Court Decision to Void Elon Musk’s Compensation
The Musk ruling sets a huge precedent and could lead to similar suits against other outrageous CEO pay packages.
Rural Inequality vs. Grassroots Land Reform: Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement Turns Forty
Rural land concentration compounds inequality and threatens democracy. Through grassroots land reform, this movement offers hope.
New Independent Contractor Rule Can ‘Help Protect Workers’
Bosses who misclassify workers as independent contractors can deny them fair pay and rights. A new Department of Labor rule seeks to end that practice.
A Working Class Victory on Colombia’s Horizon
An advancing labor reform bill could increase overtime pay, expand social security for delivery workers, and strengthen workplace rights.
10 Victories for the Working Class in 2023
From the picket lines to state houses to the White House, champions in the fight against inequality landed huge wins.
Scraping Away the Anti-Worker, Anti-Racial Equity Vestiges of the Reagan Era
The Biden administration aims to undo contracting policy holdovers from the 1980s to boost public investment benefits for workers and their communities.
Red Cup Rebellion Redux: A Q&A with Starbucks Workers United
"You are making $15 an hour when your boss is making that in a breath.”