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Investing in the Care Economy: Domestic Workers in California Hope for Overtime Pay
Greater public investment is needed to help people with disabilities pay caregivers living wages and overtime pay.
Climate Change Pledges Not Nearly Enough to Save Tropical Ecosystems
The carbon pledges made by 178 nations in Paris to date won't likely save tropical coral reefs or cloud forests, or prevent mass global extinctions.
Graduate Students Are Workers: The Decades-Long Fight for Graduate Unions, and the Path Forward
The NLRB's ruling that teaching and research assistants at Columbia University are workers and are legally protected is historic.
India’s First Fully Organic State Faces Many Challenges to Maintaining Its Status
It's too early to hail Sikkim's transition to chemicals-free agriculture an outright success, say observers.
Socializing the Corrupt: Cheating, Education and Law Enforcement in Pennsylvania
Law enforcement leaders create an educational system for socializing corrupt police in Pennsylvania.
EPA’s Inaction Made Way for Lead Poisoning in Children, Lawsuit Claims
Seven years after promising new standards for assessing lead dust dangers, the federal government hasn't delivered.
Black Women Do Breastfeed, Despite Intense Systemic Barriers in the US
Targeted and systemic support for Black mothers is needed to overcome the racial gap in breastfeeding rates in the US.
iPhone or iExploit? Rampant Labor Violations in Apple’s Supply Chain
Are Apple's production quotas and profit margins actively obstructing positive change in its supply chain?
Temp Organizing Gets Big Boost From National Labor Relations Board
Temporary workers can now organize along with direct employees and belong to the same bargaining unit, or form a separate bargaining unit composed only of temps.
“I Didn’t Serve, I Was Used”: How Veterans Are Losing the War at Home
Ann Jones examines schemes seeking to use veterans for corporate interests and dismantle the VA system in the name of privatized profits.