Advocates Urge FDA to Ease Access to Abortion Pill for Miscarriage Management
Original publication by The 19th. More than 40 advocacy and medical organizations submitted a petitionThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA), asking that miscarriage management be added as an use case for mifepristone. This drug is commonly used in medical abortions and the restrictions surrounding who can prescribe it. Groups that include the American College of […]
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CEO Pay Has Grown By 1,460 Percent Since 1978, as Workers’ Wages Stagnate
While workers’ wages have stagnated in comparison to productivity over the past four decades, CEO pay in the U.S. has skyrocketed at a rate far outpacing the growth of the economy and productivity, a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) finds. According to research released by EPI on TuesdaySince 1978, the CEO pay […]
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The Battle for Election Integrity Heats Up in Southern States Ahead of Midterms
Activists opposing a new Jim Crow and one party politics in the South are raising alarm about the greatest threat to democracy in the United States. Unfair election maps will produce unjust results in the upcoming midterm elections, which will have long-lasting negative effects throughout the South. Redistricting in Mississippi and Alabama, for example, not […]
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Supreme Court May Soon Roll Back Affirmative Action and Voting Rights
As public support of the conservative-dominated Supreme Court falls to a record low, justices are set to hear major cases on affirmative action, voting rights and online speech. Monday’s court term opened with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to hear a Supreme Court case. Although Jackson is a welcome progressive voice on […]
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Student Debt Relief Lawsuit Shows GOP Prioritizes Profit Over People
Student debt forgiveness advocate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) criticized Republicans on Monday for the party’s lawsuit to stop millions of debtors from receiving what they say is direly needed student loan forgiveness. The senator stated that even if the lawsuit fails, it exposes the loyalty of the Republican Party. “Republican officials are so angry about […]
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Braverman says all illegal immigrants will be deported or returned home
Speaking at the Conservative party conference currently underway in Birmingham, the home secretary Suella Braverman honed in on her plans for immigration in the UK, saying “it’s not racist to want to control our borders”. Braverman said that she will pull forward legislation to ensure that all illegal migration is put to an end, pushing […]
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6 Takeaways to Know on Newly-Released Trump, National Archives Documents 6 Takeaway From Archives Release on Trump Records
A public records release shed some new light on the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, and the 15 boxes of documents that Trump previously provided. Late Monday, the National Archives and Records Administration released 65 pages in response to a public record request from The Daily Signal, Heritage Oversight Project and […]
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Thérèse Coffey reiterates importance of the ‘ABCD’ NHS plan
The new Health Secretary Thérèse Coffey reiterated the government’s planned support for the NHS during her speech at the Conservative party conference underway in Birmingham. The so-called ‘ABCD’ plan, which Coffey joked was not a revelation of her A-Level grades, stands for ambulances, backlogs, care, doctors and dentists. These are the main priorities of the […]
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Dock Lawmakers’ Pay to Curb Abuse of Continuing Resolutions
The state of our nation right now is in chaos. Congress continues to ignore our most pressing problems. The crux of these issues is our inability to produce sound fiscal policy and appropriate budgeting practices. Although it may sound like I’m a broken record, I keep referring to these issues because they are important for […]
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Workers Have Held More Strikes So Far in 2022 Than in All of 2021, Data Finds
U.S. workers have waged more strikes in the first nine months of 2022 than in all of 2021, data shows, lending evidence to unions’ and activists’ observations that the labor movement is undergoing a resurgence. According to Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations’s (ILR) Labor Action Tracker, between January and the end of […]
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