325 articles· Covering labor news, worker rights, and workplace policy
Workers & the EconomyA nurse finishes a double shift, drives home in silence, and walks through the door to find breakfast dishes still on the kitchen table. Her kids need help with homework. Her partner wants to talk about the bills. She has nothing left. Not patience, not energy, not even the ability to fake a smile.
Healthcare & LaborSince 2005, 193 rural hospitals have shut their doors across the United States. That number alone should alarm you. But here's the part that keeps me up at night: over 700 additional rural hospitals are at financial risk right now, according to analysis from the Chartis Group.
Healthcare & LaborEvery additional patient added to a nurse's workload raises the odds of someone dying by 12 to 16 percent. Not the odds of a longer stay. Not the odds of a billing error. The odds of *death*.
Labor Policy & LawThe federal government stripped minimum wage and overtime protections from roughly 3 million home care workers, and most Americans didn't notice. No front-page headlines. No cable news panels.
Workers & the EconomyMost Americans can name the battles of the Civil War but couldn't tell you a single thing about the Battle of Blair Mountain, where 10,000 coal miners took up arms against company thugs in 1921. That gap isn't an accident.
Workers & the EconomyA bus that doesn't show up at 5:45 AM isn't a transportation problem. It's a wage theft problem.
Workers & the EconomyThe United States Postal Service has 33,000 locations spread across the country. That's more than all the bank branches, McDonald's restaurants, and Starbucks stores combined. And 59% of those post offices sit in ZIP codes that have either no bank or only one.
Workers & the EconomyThe promise is always the same. A politician stands at a podium, points at a closed factory, and swears those manufacturing jobs are coming back. The president himself said factories would "come roaring back" thanks to tariffs.
Workers & the EconomyThe original consumer movement wasn't about feeling good at checkout. It was about power: who has it, who doesn't, and how ordinary people buying ordinary things could shift the balance toward workers.
Workers & the EconomyWhen you buy union made products, you're directing money toward companies that pay fair wages, provide healthcare, and maintain safe working conditions. When you don't, you're often funding the opposite.
Labor Policy & LawThe top 100 donors to federal races in 2022 outspent millions of small donors combined by roughly 60 percent. That single statistic should make every working person furious.
Labor Policy & LawMost people hear "net neutrality" and assume it's a fight between Silicon Valley giants and telecom companies. A squabble between billionaires over bandwidth. That framing is wrong, and it's been wrong for over a decade.
