Tag: economy
Why workers are turning to unions
Besides fighting for better wages and working conditions, unions confront favoritism and discrimination when no one else will.
Indigenous-led organization opens new salvo in fight for climate justice
NDN Collective, inspired by the Standing Rock Sioux movement, releases a report on Dakota Access Pipeline.
Can community schools rescue a ‘troubled’ district?
A contentious contract negotiation between teachers and a district in the Washington D.C. suburbs could foretell whether a transformative strategy for school improvement can dislodge entrenched leadership practices.
Colombia, once a pro-U.S. conservative bastion, turns left
Voters in Colombia have picked a powerful new duo, Gustavo Petro as president and Francia Márquez as vice president, to take the nation in a new direction, tackling economic and environmental injustice.
How greedy corporations fuel inflation
“Companies make any kind of excuse to raise prices on everything."
What pundit Ezra Klein doesn’t get about parenting in a looming...
It’s a matter of math: Bigger families mean more carbon emissions.
How corporate food monopolies caused the baby formula scandal
The fact that a handful of companies produce the majority of our food means that small disruptions will have big impacts. This time the impacts are borne by American babies.
Our bodies, societies and planet are inflamed for the same reasons
Raj Patel and Rupa Marya coauthored the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice to highlight the connections between health and structural injustice.
Keeping workers poor is bad for business
At America's biggest low-wage employers, chief executives now pocket 670 times more than their workers.