Friday, April 4, 2025

Gov. Newsom signs bill to raise wages and working standards for fast food workers...

Labor advocates are calling the new bill a "groundbreaking step" for low-wage workers.

Students and teachers are staging walkouts and creative protests to fight book bans and...

As the school year begins, students and teachers are fighting back against an onslaught of attacks on antiracist and LGBTQ education.

Dinner versus the truth: The problem with Facebook’s content warnings

The decision to prioritize our own comfort and convenience by looking away might feel easier, but it comes at a terrible cost.

Is the US legal system at war with its people?

Incarcerations, brutality, and torture are common in the U.S. Activists claim that this amounts to a war waged against racially marginalized, poor, and working-class people.

59 percent in US living paycheck to paycheck as corporate profits surge to all-time...

"A large share of consumers are essentially living on the razor's edge."

Community schools can revitalize the neighborhoods around them

The transformative approach to school improvement is a catalyst for community revival.
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Is crypto really going to crash? (yes)

These crypto crashes and freezes have fueled worries that the complex crypto banking and lending system is on the brink of ruin.

Are community schools the last, best shot at addressing education inequity?

A district in the Washington, D.C., suburbs may foretell whether a transformative approach to school improvement can address longstanding opportunity gaps in education.
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How America can lower gas prices like other countries

While you pay through the nose at the gas pump, Big Oil is lining its pockets.

The decline and fall of everything (including me)

What goes up must… Well, you know…