Labor

The workers who put food on our tables face poverty, deportation, and extreme heat. These are policy choices—and they can be changed.

The proposal includes restrictions on insider stock sales and an excise tax designed to dampen the buyback spree.

If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $61.75 today.

The recommendations would reduce inequality by setting high-road standards for federal contractors, closing tax loopholes for the rich, canceling student debt, cracking down on price-gougers, and building worker power.

New York's essential workers have been excluded from relief and benefits. The Fund Excluded Workers Coalition is fighting to change that.

The legislation gets rid of a manufactured financial burden that has threatened the ability of USPS to provide good jobs and universal service.

Hit hard by the Covid crisis, restaurant workers are joining with other essential workers to fight for policies at all levels of government that will allow them to live in dignity.

The president’s State of the Union address tasked Congress with an ambitious agenda, but Biden needs to do much more on his own to reduce inequality.

Strong jobs numbers are not enough. The president should keep pushing a bold legislative agenda while deploying every executive tool at his disposal to achieve a more equitable economy.