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We Can’t Avoid Climate Breakdown Without Reducing Growth, Leading Economist Says
We must replace the drive for quantitative growth with qualitative, sustainable development, says economist Herman Daly.
GOP Introduces Bill That Makes It Easier to Fire Workers at Federal Agencies
One policy expert described the bill as part of “an effort to gear up a major assault on the federal employment system.”
Massachusetts Trader Joe’s Workers Celebrate Forming Company’s First-Ever Union
The vote is yet another win for workers who are defying the odds to unionize at national chains.
4 Companies Filed Nearly 15,000 Eviction Actions in COVID’s First 16 Months
A new report shows how corporate landlords engaged in harassment and abusive deception of their tenants.
Fed Rate Hikes Are “Body Blow” to Workers Reeling From Pandemic
Experts forecast another economic recession in the United States with rising inflation and an unchanged minimum wage.
Biden Administration Sends Signal That It May Be Extending Student Loan Pause
Officials have told student loan servicers to not send out bills ahead of the current end of the pause on August 31.
Outgoing Boris Johnson Government Passes Anti-Union Law Amid Looming Strike Wave
Since 1973, it has been illegal in the U.K. for employment agencies to farm out workers to break strikes -- until now.
Starbucks Union Starts Workers’ Fund After Firing of Over 50 Pro-Union Workers
Starbucks has reached “historic levels of union busting,” workers say.
Federal Minimum Wage Hasn’t Been Raised in 13 Years
Progressives are urging Democrats to raise the pay floor as inflation continues to diminish workers' purchasing power.
Amid Eviction Crisis, Organizers Win Right to Legal Representation for Tenants
A right to counsel in eviction cases exerts an outsize impact as an intervention in housing injustice.