With housing costs gobbling up wage increases for union members and almost everyone else, labor must prioritize housing affordability.
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With López Obrador In, Workers Have the Confidence to Walk Out
Mexico’s new president has raised wages, and maquiladora workers have gone on strike along the border.
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The First Priority: Making America a Democracy
How Americans can move their country closer to majority rule
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EPA Rollbacks: Hurting Americans Where They Live
A look inside the agency’s Midwest office
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Reproductive Rights at Risk With or Without Roe
In much of the country, access to abortion has already been blocked by state governments, especially for women in poverty. And if Roe goes, access will be scarcer still.
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British Labour’s Self-Inflicted Marginalization
Why Her Majesty’s Opposition is failing to demolish the feeble Theresa May
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Europe’s Winter of Discontent
Domestic political turmoil in the European Union’s four largest economies spells trouble ahead.
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A New Day for Mexican Workers
The Lopez Obrador administration is changing the law so that workers can actually choose a union and vote on their contracts.
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Unlearning the Lessons of Hillbilly Elegy
America’s beleaguered poor and working class have a host of problems, but the culture of irresponsibility that J.D. Vance says they’re prey to isn’t one of them.
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States of Change
The election win wasn’t just about Congress. Many of the openings for democratic reform will be in the states.
