Labor

Can Black Women Lead on Rethinking Marriage?

By Dani McClain / On The Issues Magazine

Why black voters may be skeptical of marriage equality for reasons that have nothing to do with homophobia.

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Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis: "Victory for Education" Comes from Strike

By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Romney, Ryan, GOP Demand Obama Stop Strengthening Welfare Work Mandate

By Leo Gerard / AlterNet

Who's Really Benefiting from Workplace "Wellness" Programs?

By Carl Finamore / Labor Notes

Innovative Model Is Helping Save the Future of Unions and May Turn the Election

By Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft

Breaking Down This Week's Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit

Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced to Wait at Security Checkpoints Without Getting Paid

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Labor

Outsourcing Abuse: How Farm Workers Are Being Cheated Out of Their Hard-Earned Money

Tracie McMillan / AlterNet

Why Do Americans Have to Crush Others to Get Ahead?

Frank Joyce / AlterNet

A Totally Different Way to Think About Economics — with Visionary Charles Eisenstein

Adam Parsons / Share the World's Resources

More Than 46 Million Americans Still in Poverty

Salvatore Babones / Truthout

‘The Revolution Will Not Be Standardized’: Day Two of the Chicago Teachers Strike

Kari Lydersen / In These Times

Roseanne Barr: The War on Drugs Is Just Plain Crazy

Roseanne Barr / Huffington Post

5 So-Called Liberal Pundits Who Are Attacking Teachers

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Memo to the Punditocracy: Public Sector Jobs Are Real Jobs!

Marshall Auerback / CounterPunch

Stand Against Rahm! The Chicago Teachers' Strike Is the Next Chapter in the Fight Against Plutocracy

Rick Perlstein / Salon

Between Violence and a New Social Contract: South Africa at a Crossroads

Francis Njubi Nesbitt / Foreign Policy in Focus

The Dystopian Digital Sweatshop That Makes the Internet Run

Zakia Uddin / AlterNet

Why the Chicago Teachers Strike Is Really About Better Schools

David Moberg / In These Times

4 Reasons Chicago's Teachers Are on Strike

Miles Kampf-Lassin / Occupied Chicago Tribune

Why I'm Striking

Xian Barrett / Teacher X

Top Progressive Senator Shares What It's Like to Fight Against $15 Million Deluge in Right-Wing Election Money

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Mitt Romney Is the Poster Child for Why There's No Economic Recovery -- Why Are Democrats So Bad at Saying That?

Marcy Wheeler / Emptywheel

How Reforming Welfare and Gutting Programs for the Poor Became a Bipartisan Platform

Michelle Chen / In These Times

The Hidden Progressive History of Income Tax

Erik Loomis / AlterNet

Chicago Teachers Uprising Takes on a 1 Percent Mayor, and the Labor Establishment to Boot

Ari Paul / AlterNet

Years Later, Human Trafficking Survivors at Risk of Re-Exploitation

Ambika Kandasamy / New America Media/ SF Public Press

Obama's Big Finale at the DNC -- Dems Are More Agressive, United Than We've Seen in Years

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Impossible Choices? The Conservatism of "Breaking Bad"

Michael Corcoran / Truthout

Chicago Teachers Countdown to Strike Time

Theresa Moran / Labor Notes

Insecurity Is What Separates the Middle Class From Romney and Ryan.

Leo Gerard / AlterNet

It's a Screwed-Up World When Prostituted Women Are Arrested More Often Than the Johns Who Abuse and Kill Them

Claire Glass / AlterNet

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