Straddling class divisions is so last century. There’s a new base in town, and it includes a lot of people who used to be middle-class but aren’t anymore.
Working in America
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
This Is What Happened When I Took the MTA Bus to Pick Up Food Stamps
A response to a much-chattered-about article by an upper-middle-class white woman who was appalled to find herself judged when she applied for food stamps.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Minimum Wage For Tipped Workers Hasn’t Increased Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows the ravages of an artificially depressed wage on food servers and other workers.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Justice Samuel Alito’s Deep Roots in the American Right
He’s the most pro-corporate jurist on the Supreme Court. So decisions that grant companies religious rights or take aim at labor unions come quite naturally to him.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Health Insurance Is Not a Favor Your Boss Does For You
Everyone seems to have forgotten that insurance is a form of compensation, no less than your salary.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Alabama Steelworkers Fight for Their Jobs, Threatened By Korea Trade Ruling
The steel industry is under attack by the selling or “dumping” of foreign steel, says the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Shifting Tactics, Moral Monday Movement Launches a New Freedom Summer
Fifty years after the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, North Carolina activists move from civil disobedience to big voter mobilization push.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Listen to Harold Meyerson Analyze the Supreme Court’s Big Anti-Union Decision on ‘To the Point’
Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect‘s editor at large, appeared on the June 30th edition of Public Radio International’s To the Point, analyzing the Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn, which allows home health-care workers in Illinois to opt out of paying their union dues. Listen here. Read Meyerson’s essay on the Harris case here: […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
Supreme Court Rules Disadvantaged Workers Should Be Disadvantaged Some More
The decision in Harris v. Quinn—written by the Court’s leading union-hater, Justice Samuel Alito—appears designed to cripple unions by creating incentives for “free riders.”
Posted inAmerica and the World
Why China Has Strikes Without Unions
By eschewing the role of dissident, organizers allow the Communist Party to respond either favorably or neutrally to their actions, rather than repressing them.
