Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2009. Lock our lawmakers in a room with the brilliant Dr. Elizabeth Warren until they start enacting policy that helps working people.
Amy R. Ramos, Miller-McCune.com. July 17, 2009. Stagnant wages, sexual harassment, worsening benefits, horrible treatment: just a few of the problems faced by American workers in all industries.
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. July 1, 2009. Studies show that the current economic climate may be eroding months or even years from the lives of those on the bleeding edge of insecurity.
Margaret Wheeler Johnson, AlterNet. June 13, 2009. Author Matthew Crawford publishes a jeremiad against white-collar culture and the educational system designed to populate it.
Staff, Media Matters for America AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 10, 2009. USA Today attributes claims of E-Verify errors to interest groups, but government reports support criticism.
Sarah van Gelder, Doug Pibel, YES! Magazine. December 11, 2008. Having big cars, fancy TVs and trendy clothes never made us happy. It only drove us into debt -- and increased our dependence on long work hours.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 27, 2008. Unemployment is soaring and it may be March before we feel the first dollar of an Obama recovery plan.
Allison Martell, Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. July 17, 2008. Even when researchers try to correct for differences in education and work experience, a 20% gap in earnings still persists.
Don Monkerud, AlterNet. September 3, 2007. Compared to people in other developed countries, Americans don't ask for more vacation time, don't take all the vacation time their employers give them and continue to work while they are on vacation.
Heather Boushey, The American Prospect. March 21, 2007. In the struggle to balance work and family, work is winning. Democrats need to take back the values issue and promote economic policies that recognize that workers have families.
Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. November 9, 2006. In the 24 states that voted to raise their minimum wages, it just got a bit more worthwhile to get up for work each morning.
Andy Stern, AlterNet. November 2, 2006. Something's wrong when only the rich are getting richer, and average folks are feeling the squeeze. The answer isn't more education, or simply electing better leaders. We need widespread change.
Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. October 13, 2006. In such troubled times, shouldn't those of us who can choose our work choose a job that, at worst, doesn't harm anyone and, at best, makes the world a better place?
