We Need a Care Package!
We've built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.
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Stop Killer Coke!
Death squads have assassinated eight trade union leaders in Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia. The Stop Killer Coke campaign holds the beverage giant responsible.
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Tyson Workers Holding the Line… and the Pepperoni
Less than 500 pepperoni workers on strike against Tyson Foods in the tiny Wisconsin town of Jefferson are staring down
Scripted Talk
From "Welcome to McDonalds" to "Paper or plastic?" employers control the speech of service workers.
Captive Labor
The plight of Peruvian sheepherders illuminates broader exploitation of immigrant workers in U.S. agriculture.
Innovative Labor Strategies: 10 Campaigns to Learn From
Organized labor could use a shot in the arm. Today, the percentage of U.S. workers in unions continues to
Dear Dr. Dollar:
I have been hearing quite a bit about the dangers of deflation to the United States economy. I have even heard warnings that "spiraling deflation" could cause a global depression such as occurred in the 1930s. But wasn't the Great Depression caused by hyper-inflation, not deflation? Is deflation rea
Flattening Appalachia
New mining techniques explode mountains and cause acres of land to collapse. The coal industry calls it economic development, and paid-off politicians agree.
Will Rent Control Make a Comeback in Boston?
How tenants' efforts to reinstate rent regulation in Boston were thwarted, for now.
From HOPE VI to HOPE SICK?
A federal program that was supposed to improve the worst of the nation's public housing gets hijacked by private developers and government bureaucrats.