More than 100 million of our compatriots don’t have it—which poses all kinds of risks to the rest of us.
Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Leaves Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, and From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and many other publications.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Paying Off Your Paid Leave
Many workers who need more sick time than they’ve accrued end up having to pay back their employers and go into ‘PTO debt.’
Posted inAmerica and the World
Across Britain, Labour Activists Hit the Doorsteps for Votes
In the U.K. election’s final days, the feeling on the ground is very different from the story told in the news.
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Labour Activists Canvass in the Cold in Britain
The December 12 parliamentary election has brought out Labour’s secret weapon: organizers who have been working for years to end austerity and bring a new politics to the U.K.
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Labour Conference Endorses Radical Policies Ahead of U.K. Elections
Labour’s best hope for victory in a general election, just as it was in 2017, is to get people talking about something besides Brexit.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Labour’s Secret Weapon
As Brexit looms, a surge of community organizing from within is bridging political divides and refocusing the British Labour Party.
Posted inAmerica and the World
A Brexit Diary: What Comes Next for Labour?
As gridlock in Parliament mounts, Jeremy Corbyn must find a way to move his leftist agenda to the center of the conversation.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Unions to Banks: Pay Up
Instead of raising taxes, labor leaders in collective-bargaining talks have a new proposal for closing state budget gaps: Go after the financial institutions that ripped off governments.
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A New Southern Strategy
In South Carolina, an Obama campaign veteran puts his organizing strategies to work in government.