Campaign Seeks to Abolish the Subminimum Wage in 25 States by 2026
Because the economic system recovers from a world pandemic, many enterprise house owners are pointing to labor shortages attributable to the “Nice Resignation” as a supply of frustration. The time period refers back to the greater than 33 million U.S. employees who’ve give up their jobs because the spring of 2021, largely because of low […]
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3 Incarcerated Women Die of COVID After Requesting Compassionate Release
Rory Adams didn’t know that Christmas in a small rural hospital in West Virginia could be the final time he noticed his spouse alive. She’d entered jail in early January 2021 to serve a 42-month sentence for failure to gather payroll taxes. She was presupposed to return to North Carolina, their two grownup kids, and […]
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Ford’s Theatre, Park Service Push Story of ‘Complex,’ ‘Fallible’ Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln not solely was a “fallible, advanced human being, whose legacy continues to evolve,” he additionally used “racist” language, Ford’s Theatre staffers say in internal emails obtained by The Every day Sign. Their views got here as Ford’s Theatre in Washington, the place the16th president was assassinated in 1865, launched a social media […]
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Border Militias Set Up Fake Humanitarian Stations in the Desert to Trap Migrants
Many of our communities have been left reeling from violence, harassment, and intimidation due to the rise of the militia movement over the past few years. Donald Trump’s tacit endorsement of the far right “patriot” subculture has given it a pass to grow and recruit, often manipulating the dispossession that many rural and blue-collar workers […]
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Biden Promised to Center Racial Justice. He Can Start by Canceling Student Debt.
It is believed that if the U.S. has a cold, the Black population will get the flu. In the United States, historically, communities of color have suffered the most from policy decisions. The student debt crisis is no different. Nearly 45 million Americans owe federal student loans. According to researcher Melanie HansonAccording to the Education […]
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How Starbucks Workers Turned the Tables On Union Busters
A national wave of organizing has hit Starbucks’ company-run stores in the last three months. The author is one of hundreds. Starbucks workers Since early December, when workers in Buffalo won their first union at a company-run facility in the United States in decades, they have filed for elections with National Labor Relations Boards in […]
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Supreme Court Could Restrict US Agencies’ Regulatory Power in Air Pollution Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments on February 28, 2022. West Virginia v. EPA, a case that centers on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. The court’s decision could have wide-ranging implications, not only for climate change, but also for federal regulation in […]
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“I Don’t Know” Why LGBTQ+ People Are Anxious, Depressed
Two weeks after South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed Thursday’s criticism of the Republican for her apparent ignorance about the difficulties faced many LGBTQ+ people was due to her refusal to sign a law prohibiting transgender students from participating in sports teams that reflect their gender identity. During a press briefing, reporter Kyle Ireland asked […]
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In a Victory for Activists, Lawsuit Against Arizona’s ALEC Lawmakers Can Proceed
An appeals court in Arizona ruled this week that a coalition of racial justice groups can pursue a lawsuit against 26 Republican state lawmakers accused of breaking Arizona’s open meetings law at a 2019 policy summit of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is a powerful pay-to play forum that brings together hundreds of […]
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In Prison, We Celebrated the First Step Act. We Realized It Falls Far Short.
The U.S. Department of Justice published a final rule describing how the federal Bureau of Prisons would implement the First Step Act of 2018. It was headline news that thousands of federal prisoners were now eligible for release. The news quickly spread to the rest of the nation. 153, 053 Americans incarcerated in federal prisons, […]
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