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Economy & Labor
States Are Trying to Stop Cities From Raising Minimum Wage
GOP-controlled legislatures have been wresting control over wages and benefits from local governments.
Women Still Take Home Less Money Than They’ve Rightfully Earned
If we paid women equal pay for equal work, they would add $512 billion to the economy.
Pete Buttigieg Trivializes the Impact of Trade on US Job Losses
The Democratic presidential candidate has been telling audiences a very big lie.
Nurses Are Leading Strike Efforts — Where Are the Physicians?
Physicians have much to learn from the nurses’ example.
I’ve Seen Goldman Sachs From the Inside. We Need Public Banks.
We need to move away from the Wall Street model of banking, which privatizes profit while socializing harm.
It’s Time to Transform the Tax Code and Implement a Green New Deal
More progressive and ecological taxation is essential to fund the ecosocialist Green New Deal.
Stop & Shop Strikers Are Standing Up for All Grocery Workers
The outcome of the Stop & Shop strike will have implications for workers nationwide.
San Francisco Housing Prices Are Set Based on What Rich Techies Can Pay
Housing developers in California's Bay Area are catering to the wealthy -- at the expense of everyone else.
First Latina Immigrant Leader of National Union Hits Ground Running
UFW President Teresa Romero is pushing to allow immigrant farmworkers to permanently remain in the U.S.
Who Really Got a Tax Cut This Year? Corporations and the Wealthy.
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. voters want Trump's tax law repealed.