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How Biden protected workers during the debt ceiling fight
Joel Buchanan owns his home, travels, donates to charitable causes, and still has more than enough money to pay his bills on time—thanks in large part to Social Security.This article was produced by...
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'Unprecedented show of solidarity': Major labor unions endorse Biden for 2024
On the eve of a Philadelphia rally hosted by labor leaders, the AFL-CIO and 17 unions on Friday endorsed Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for reelection in...
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Lifelong GOPer fears DeSantis will 'destroy' Florida businesses as...
A new Florida law cracking down on undocumented immigrants, signed last month by far-right Gov. Ron DeSantis and set to take effect on July 1, has pushed thousands of workers to flee the state. Now...
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How Americans created a wave of pro-worker laws
This article was produced by the Independent Media Institute.Dave Smith launched a union drive many years ago that generated enthusiastic support among his coworkers, but the effort died after...
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'I’m the biggest racist': DeSantis skewered after axing diversity, equity and...
Editor's note: An Oxford comma was removed from the headline.Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is proud to run his "War on Woke" 2024 presidential campaign that includes advocating for book...
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A curious business model: India will pay 70% of cost but Micron will own 100%...
The deal with Micron during PM Modi’s visit to the United States has made headlines as a major technological breakthrough and a new dawn for India’s electronics chip-making industry. Implicit in this...
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Reich chews out Republicans for 'chipping away at freedom' to 'preserve'...
Robert Reich, a former United States Secretary of Labor and current Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley,...
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'Keeps on chugging': Unemployment down and wages up in 'strong' and...
Economists are calling the June jobs report “strong,” and “solid,” with 209,000 jobs added bringing unemployment down to a near-50-year low of 3.6%. 220,000 to 240,000 jobs were predicted, but experts...
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'The history of social change is also a history of disruption': experts
When two campaigners with the climate protest group Just Stop Oil threw confetti onto a tennis court at the Wimbledon championship in London on Wednesday, the action—like others by Just Stop Oil in...
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The return of child labor is the latest sign of American decline
Steve Fraser, Return of the RepressedYes, as TomDispatch regular and historian Steve Fraser, author of Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion, points out today, child labor is...
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Why workers demand Julie Su’s confirmation as labor secretary
It wasn’t enough for owners of lucrative Southern California car washes to cheat their workers out of wages and overtime.This article was produced by the Independent Media Institute.They made workers...
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Solving homelessness is not that hard
Our economic priorities have created a serious housing crisis and fueled homelessness. Solving the problem simply requires us to change our priorities from profits to people.California is home to...
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'The sky’s the limit': Conservative proposes ambitious agenda for Biden’s...
While Donald Trump, according to polls, remains the double-digit frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, much of the Democratic establishment has been rallying around President Joe Biden's...
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'You make $27,000,000 per year!' Disney CEO vilified for calling writers’...
Bob Iger, the chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company, came under heavy fire on Thursday after he told CNBC host David Fabe from the uber-rich Sun Valley Conference that striking Hollywood...
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SAG President Fran Drescher’s speech is a must-watch for workers everywhere
On Thursday, the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists officially approved a strike vote for the first time since 1980. The union, which represents approximately...
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How federal law can protect all workers on sweltering summer days
The heat index soared to 111 degrees in Houston, Texas, but the real-feel temperature climbed even higher than that inside the heavy personal protective equipment (PPE) that John Hayes and his...
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Hollywood executives stall industry rather than give workers a raise
Refusing to negotiate better compensation and fair working conditions for actors and writers, major film and television studios are to blame for the work stoppages afflicting their industry.Hollywood...
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How I-95’s rapid repair teaches 'lessons' in fixing infrastructure:...
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) published an opinion column in Sunday's Washington Post in which he outlines what the rest of the United States can learn from his administration's...
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Saudi farming company can’t use their country’s water for crops — so they’re...
A Washington Post exposé revealed that Saudi Arabia is aware that their options for growing crops in the desert are limited. It takes a hefty amount of water to grow alfalfa and it appears the country...
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'It’s bizarre': Wisconsin Republicans want 14-year-olds to be able to serve...
Before President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 into law, the drinking age varied from state to state in the U.S. Some states allowed minors to legally purchase...
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