Life is getting even tougher for poor people in America. As poverty rates soar — due in part to policies such as cutting pandemic aid for poor and working-class people — new rules that kicked in September 1 only add to the suffering…
Labor Day’s forgotten older workers
the Seattle Times
When we think of workers on Labor Day, who comes to mind? Chances are, it’s not the millions of older workers still toiling in our nation’s home care and nursing facilities, cleaning our office buildings, hustling around carrying boxes in big corporate warehouses, driving long-haul trucks or sweating in the fields to produce our food…
Fear & Loathing in San Francisco
The Nation
After just two years in office, Chesa Boudin, the district attorney of San Francisco, gets blamed for every crime in the book—even offenses committed before he took office and beyond the city limits…
MEET THE PINOS: PROGRESSIVE IN NAME ONLY
rootsaction.org
These Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Often Act More Like Corporate Centrists—And Many Deserve Primary Challenges…
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing recessions have hit older workers especially hard.
Let’s honor Labor Day by protecting workers
The Seattle Times
As we celebrate Labor Day and “essential workers” amid a viciously resurgent pandemic, we ought to match our rhetoric with some concrete protections for these workers — you know, all those warehouse employees, meatpackers, farmworkers and supermarket staff that industry groups love to thank online while doing little, if anything, for them in the real world.
Biden Has AbaNDONED HIS COVID WORKER SAFETY PLEDGE
In These Times
Biden’s much-anticipated workplace safety rule excludes most workers—and some in the labor movement are not happy.