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We Need Less Work, Not More
For the planet and our health, it's time to build a labor movement that stands for less labor, not more.
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EPA Report Finds Pesticide Poses Risk to Workers, Spurs Calls for Ban
An insecticide used on corn and other US crops poses health risks to workers.
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One Thing Schools Should Do to Boost Students’ Intellectual Growth
The problem with modern education that can be fixed in school but has never been adequately addressed is this: information overload.
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The Van Hollen Plan Takes on Soaring CEO Pay: A Debate We Need to Have
Taxpayers are subsidizing ever-larger executive pay packages while their own wages stagnate.
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Maya Schenwar | Your Home Is Your Prison
Efforts to reform the prison system may only be expanding the prison system into other parts of American life.
Democrats Take on Wall Street With Financial Transactions Tax
The House Democratic Party leadership made a remarkable step forward last week in putting out a proposal for a financial transactions tax.
Five Corporations You’ve Never Heard of Are Making Millions From Mass Incarceration
Five companies extracting huge profits from the growth of prisons, often out of public sight.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: All Labor Has Dignity
In his introduction to the newly published anthology of MLK's speeches and writings, Cornel West writes, “This book unearths a radical King that we can no longer sanitize.”
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Uncovering a World War II Prisoner Exchange Program Through Interned Immigrants’ Stories
From 1942 to 1948, thousands of immigrants deemed disloyal to the United States were held in a Texas internment camp.
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New IRS Rules for Nonprofit Hospitals That Sue Patients
Under new IRS rules these hospitals must take extra steps to inform poor patients they may qualify for financial assistance.