Stories by Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is an associate editor at AlterNet, a rabblerouser and frequent Twitterer. You can follow her at @sarahljaffe.
Posted on May 18, 2012, Source: AlterNet
New York's billionaire mayor is so opposed to a tiny raise for workers at companies that get public money that he's vowed to sue. What's the deal with living wage laws anyway?
Posted on May 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Shares of the social network go on sale Friday at an initial public offering expected to be one of the largest ever--so how's it managing to get a $3 billion tax break?
Posted on May 9, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Around the country, families are being tossed out of their homes with astonishing regularity, with local law enforcement enlisted to do the bidding of big banks.
Posted on May 8, 2012, Source: N+1 Magazine
David Graeber, Mike Konczal, Sarah Jaffe and Brian Kalkbrenner discuss debt--what it is, why we're drowning in it, why it's a political issue. Moderated by Astra Taylor.
Posted on May 3, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Calling for an end to policies that make college less accessible to lower-income students, CUNY activists held a peaceful sit-in that was violently broken up by police.
Posted on May 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Yesterday, Occupy recaptured the public's attention with rallies, marches, parties, and yes, arrests all over the country.
Posted on May 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet
In his new book, Rory O'Connor traces the impact of social media on how we get our information -- and who we trust to bring it to us.
Posted on Apr 29, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Organizers and activists have planned direct actions and mass rallies, marches and blockades, as well as mutual aid and concerts to include as many people as possible.
Posted on Apr 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The collective weight of American student debt is a drag not just on those paying the debt, but on our entire economy.
Posted on Apr 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Labor is an integral part of the progressive coalition, one of the only forces capable of acting as a counterweight to the organized money that's taken over our politics.
Posted on Apr 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Mitt Romney's wife held a tax day fundraiser in New York--and found a day of protest from working people angry at the Romneys and their 1% friends' low tax rates.
Posted on Apr 10, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Here's how the banks are still doing exactly as they please when it comes to homes. But there's hope.
Posted on Apr 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet
While there's almost nothing B of A does that is for the people, it sure as hell is paid for by the people. Now activists are pushing to break it up before it breaks down--again.
Posted on Apr 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Ohio will be a battleground come November, but the big money groups are spending lavishly now in hopes of unseating the Senate's best economic populist.
Posted on Mar 26, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The bans on collective bargaining, enacted in Wisconsin and overturned in Ohio, have had effects not just on organizing, but on workers' daily lives.
Posted on Mar 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet
In a new revision of the news organization's 2003 code of ethics, NPR commits itself not just to finding “balance” in its stories, but to prioritizing truth.
Posted on Mar 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The choice to fast is both an evocation of the history of farmworker activism and a moral choice, made to highlight the poverty the workers face.
Posted on Mar 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Even if stations ditch Limbaugh, there are still thousands of proto-Rushes waiting in the wings around the country.
Posted on Mar 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Limbaugh is losing advertisers fast after calling law student Sandra Fluke a "slut"--but bad behavior is nothing new for Rush. Here are five of his worst moments.
Posted on Mar 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The upscale grocery delivery service pays less than $9 an hour, has faced discrimination complaints, and is a union-buster--so why is New York giving it a handout?
Posted on Feb 29, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Bruce Springsteen long ago achieved the American Dream, but he never stopped singing about the people he grew up, and never stopped identifying as a member of the working class.
Posted on Feb 23, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Journalist Paul Mason covered the uprisings of 2011 as they occurred. His new book "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere," explains why they all happened at once.
Posted on Feb 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Millions of young people may have a much harder time paying for an education.
Posted on Feb 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet
John Nichols talks about his new book, "Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Occupy Wall Street," and what happens next.
Posted on Feb 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Americans' views on the most pressing issues of the day are actually solidly progressive, so why do the media keep getting the story wrong?
Posted on Feb 9, 2012, Source: AlterNet
When state after state slashes education dollars, we see what matters to them--and where they spend while cutting schools tells us even more.
Posted on Feb 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Santorum's success in the Midwest has come through a combination of race and class-based grievances as well as his appeal to social conservatives.
Posted on Feb 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Right-wingers claim Obama and Democrats across the country are waging a war on religion -- and of course, conservatives are the civilian casualties.
Posted on Feb 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Two progressive champions are facing off for one seat in Congress. What's a voter to do?
Posted on Feb 5, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Jan Brewer has decided to get in on the union-busting action, introducing a bill that makes Ohio's and Wisconsin's attacks on public workers look mild.
Posted on Feb 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet
A new study on government employees' earnings has the Right buzzing -- and some progressive pundits repeating the myth that government workers are "overpaid."
Posted on Jan 26, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The B of A death watch continues as a new petition calls for federal regulators to dismantle the big bank before it implodes.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Unless we act now, the current $1 trillion student debt bubble is going to look small in 18 years—and the only ones able to go to college will be the children of the 1%.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet
USAS has been fighting steadily for workers' rights even when the issue wasn't front-page news--and they're helping spearhead a new movement for economic justice.
Posted on Jan 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Sam Mayfield is finishing a documentary on the fight for union rights in Wisconsin this past year, and she tells AlterNet her story.
Posted on Jan 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Teachers, parents and activists are organizing to fight standardized testing in schools -- and the big companies that profit from the tests.
Posted on Jan 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet
With a new year comes new chances for change--and we have some guesses as to where we'll see some exciting actions in 2012.
Posted on Dec 27, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Members of Congress have only gotten richer over the last 25 years, while their constituents have gotten poorer.
Posted on Dec 26, 2011, Source: AlterNet
This year saw working people around the world begin to stand up and fight back. Ten organizers share their most inspiring moments from the U.S.'s year of action.
Posted on Dec 22, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Savvy organizer and big thinker Stephen Lerner talks to AlterNet about how to take power back from Wall Street.
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