By Rebekah Barber The student loan pause offered a safety raft to millions of Americans who are drowning in debt. The Supreme Court’s recent 6-3 decision to block student debt relief will devastate these borrowers,…
By Stacy Mitchell Food Fresh is the only grocery store in a rural stretch of southeastern Georgia. It has many five-star Google reviews praising its freshly butchered meats, tomato bar and friendly service. Yet it faces…
By Linda McQuaig With outright climate denialism largely behind us, we keep moving on through more sophisticated stages of climate inaction. Currently, even as large swaths of North America became engulfed in wildfire smoke, we…
Commentary by Tapti Sen I am from a disappearing nation. My country, Bangladesh, is one of several at risk of becoming submerged partially or completely by rising sea levels caused by climate change in the…
Not for Lower Pay! By Sonali Kolhatkar Dolly Parton’s signature song “9 to 5,” and the 1980s sitcom of the same name reflect a quintessentially American hustle culture of working 40 hours a week in…
By Tom Conway Workers at Blue Bird Corporation in Fort Valley, Georgia, launched a union drive to secure better wages, work-life balance, and a voice on the job. The company resisted them. History defied them….
Sanders Calls for 32-Hour Workweek with No Pay Cuts By Jake Johnson Sen. Bernie Sanders in early May called for a 32-hour workweek with no pay cuts for U.S. employees, pointing to the overwhelmingly positive…
University of Chicago Law School and ACLU produce groundbreaking report Incarcerated workers generate billions of dollars’ worth of goods and services annually but are paid pennies per hour without proper training or opportunity to…
A Q&A On Local 79’s “Real Re-Entry” Campaign in New York City Han Lu interviews Bernard Callegari Starting in the spring of 2021, the National Employment Law Project teamed up with New York’s Construction &…
Commentary by Richard D. Wolff Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily…