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Sunshine Dystopia
Flickr Had enough of Republican presidential candidates spinning vague ideas for America’s future? In the Florida state house, Republican legislators are being far more concrete with their plans....
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Hard Work Doesn't Pay for Home-Care Workers
(Flickr/Steve Rhodes) Say you’ve got a booming industry, one that already employs 2 million workers in the U.S. and is poised to add 1.3 million additional jobs by 2020. Imagine that the jobs cannot be...
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As Common As Dirt
(Photography by David Bacon) One morning earlier this year, in the borderland town of Brawley, California, 75-year-old Ignacio Villalobos perched on a chair in his trailer, removed a plastic bag from...
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Men at Work
Sujatha FernandesA look into the life of Latino construction workers in New York City, the first in a three-part series.
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Obama Just Changed the Most Racist Law in the Country
(flickr/uncgspecia)You may have missed it, but yesterday President Obama dramatically altered one of the most racially damaging laws in America when the Department of Labor announced that it would...
View ArticleWhy Obama Must Announce a Good Jobs Executive Order in the State of the Union
I fear that John Boehner is not going to raise the minimum wage. It doesn’t matter that 76 percent of Americans support a wage hike, or that studies indicate that the minimum wage reduces poverty and...
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For hundreds of thousands of low-paid employees of federal contractors, the executive order President Obama announced in his State of the Union address will make a important difference in their incomes...
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CPAC Labor Panel Does GOP No Favors in Outreach to Latinos, Women
(Photo: Ron Sachs / CNP via AP Images)(Photo: Ron Sachs / CNP via AP Images) Governor Scott Walker, Republican of Wisconsin, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord...
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With New Protections Tied Up in the Courts, Home Health-Care Workers Aren't...
(AP Photo/Richard Drew)(AP Photo/Richard Drew) Ai-Jen Poo, center, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, reads her statement at a Women for Paid Sick Days rally on the steps of...
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Grand Theft Automated
AP Photo/Bebeto MatthewsAP Photo/Bebeto Matthews This article originally appeared at The Huffington Post . T he day after the New York Times published its stunning two-part exposé of labor conditions...
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