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Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women

Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women

By Karen Dolan — It’s been a difficult few years for poor people in this country. Just a year after the pandemic era safety net expansion saw poverty fall to its lowest level on record, we saw a historic 60 percent increase as those programs expired. Women and children have been among the hardest hit. […]

CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.

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CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.

By Cynthia Murray May 22, 2023 I’ll be turning 67 soon. I’d love to be able to retire on my birthday. I’d celebrate by spending the afternoon at the mall with my daughter and then start planning little trips to visit relatives. But even after 22 years of working for Walmart, our nation’s largest employer, […]

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Millionaires Surtax: The Simplest, Most Effective and Popular Way to Fund the Jobs Bill

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Millionaires Surtax: The Simplest, Most Effective and Popular Way to Fund the Jobs Bill

One of these promising proposals is very similar to a “millionaires surtax” idea that the Institute for Policy Studies and other fair tax advocates have been pushing for the past two years. By Chuck Collins, September 20, 2021 — The House Ways and Means Committee missed key opportunities in their initial revenue proposals to fairly pay […]

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Enhanced Pandemic Federal Unemployment Insurance Didn’t Hurt the Economy. Inequality Does.

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Enhanced Pandemic Federal Unemployment  Insurance Didn’t Hurt the Economy. Inequality Does.

By Rebekah Entralgo | September 15, 2021  — An estimated 9 million Americans got the rug pulled out from under them over Labor Day weekend as enhanced pandemic federal unemployment benefits expired, leaving millions of families in the lurch during a record-breaking season for COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Some 35 million people — nearly 1 […]

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Private Equity Destroyed My Job

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By Shirley Smith | September 15, 2021 — Not long ago, I was a saleswoman and manager at Art Van Furniture, a furniture retailer that was an institution in metro Detroit for over half a century. It was more than a job. My coworkers were my family, and we were all proud to work for […]

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Milton Allimadi on US Media’s Africa Reporting

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    (Kendall Hunt, 2021) This week on CounterSpin: The primary “sense” of Sub-Saharan Africa in corporate media is absence. When Africa is discussed, it’s often been, to put it simply, as a material resource and as a staging ground for Great Nation politics and proxy war. Not as far removed as it ought to […]

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Millions Fell Through the Unemployment Benefits Safety Net On Labor Day

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Millions Fell Through the Unemployment Benefits Safety Net On Labor Day

By Kevin Vazquez | Sep 15, 2021 | —  Last week, on Labor Day, an estimated 8.9 million workers and their families lost federal unemployment benefits, and nearly three million more had their weekly checks reduced by $300 per week. The Biden administration, despite the entreaties of many workers, activists, labor unions, and other organizations, […]

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Marjorie Cohn on Texas Abortion Law, Kimberly Inez McGuire on Abortion Realities

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  (cc photo: Beth Wilson) This week on CounterSpin: Many people will know that the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade in 1973, enshrining women’s right to access abortion—to choose when and whether to have a child. It seemed to signal recognition that abortion is healthcare, that most women who have abortions are mothers […]

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NLRB Will Seek All Available Remedies To Address Unlawful Conduct, Top Lawyer Says

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NLRB Will Seek All Available Remedies To Address Unlawful Conduct, Top Lawyer Says

Seek All Available Remedies To Address Unlawful Conduct, the NLRB’s top lawyer said in a memo to the board’s regional offices where much of the work of enforcing labor laws takes place. The National Labor Relations Board’s top attorney issued a memo on Wednesday stating that the board will act forcefully to protect workers’ rights. […]

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AFL-CIO President Shuler: We Will Meet This Moment With a Modern Labor Movement

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AFL-CIO President Shuler: We Will Meet This Moment With a Modern Labor Movement

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler delivered the following remarks at the Christian Science Monitor Labor Day Breakfast: Thank you, Linda [Feldmann], for that kind introduction. This event has become a Labor Day tradition for the AFL-CIO.  I know how much you all enjoyed interacting with Rich Trumka. He did the Monitor breakfast 12 times, and enjoyed […]

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