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Sarah Jaffe: The Best and Worst of Times for American Workers
Sarah Jaffe joins The Laura Flanders Show to discuss the exciting movements taking place within labor.
Dear Mr. Dolan (Where the Papers At?)
Cablevision workers from Brooklyn ask CEO James Dolan: Where the papers at?
Dear Mr. Dolan (Where the Papers At?)
Cablevision workers from Brooklyn ask CEO James Dolan: Where the papers at?
Black Unemployment 50 Years After the March on Washington
The 1963 March on Washington was billed as a march for Jobs and Freedom.
Greg Palast: Potential Fed Chair Summers at Heart of Global Economic Crisis
Greg Palast has obtained a secret memo revealing Larry Summers was involved in deal that helped setup the global economic crisis.
Juan González: Growing Charter School Chain Suspends Special Needs Kids in Bid to Raise Test Scores
Juan Gonzu00e1lez discusses his reports for the New York Daily News about how one of the New York Cityu2019s fastest-growing chains of charter schools, Success Academy, has far higher …
This Labor Day, What’s the State of the Unions?
Michael Winship interviews In These Times reporter Mike Elk about trends in organized labor and the decline of labor reporting.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Federal Regulations Could Make it Easier for Veterans and Disabled Workers to Find a Job, and More
In today's On the News segment: Fifty years after Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told the world about his dream, our nation's first African-American president spoke from the …
As Fukushima Raises Severity Level, Nuclear Expert Warns Radioactive Leaks Will Only “Get Worse”
Japan's nuclear regulator said today it has officially raised the severity rating of the latest radioactive water leak at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to Level 3 on an …
Economic Update: Economics and Health
Update on intern's death in London, austerity and suicide, over-prescribing anti-depressants, cutting health benefits, and laying off mortgage workers at Wells Fargo.