CEOs got an $800k raise last year. Did you?
Ordinary workers now have to work centuries — or even millennia — to make what their CEOs make in a year.
Justice for Layleen Polanco: Community demands answers after trans black Latinx woman died at...
Layleen’s death came at the beginning of Pride Month and just one day after the NYPD apologized for the first time for its raid a half-century ago on the Stonewall Inn, a gay- and trans-friendly bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
Overcrowding, rotten food & nooses: DHS watchdog confirms horrific conditions at immigrant jails
Now Homeland Security’s own inspector general has revealed how detained immigrants are subjected to rotten food, severe overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and broken and overflowing toilets.
The Various Shades of Black… and Green
The hit film of 2018 was Peter Farrelly's Green Book. The film takes place in 1962, and was based on a true story...
Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’
In addition to boosting wages, it will take major policy changes, like making child care more universally available and affordable, to offset the skyrocketing costs of living for American workers.
Good news: Straight people don’t need a parade
Straight pride is already well-represented in everything from children’s books to rom-coms to music videos.
Police are still killing unarmed black people
So far this year, 390 people have been killed by police, according to a Washington Post database of police shootings.
How wealthy have our super wealthy become?
It turns out we know far less, by contrast, about Americans who live amid great wealth.
‘It’s bad for business:’ CEOs speak out against attacks on reproductive rights, abortion bans
"As anti-choice politicians are escalating attacks on these fundamental freedoms we encourage the entire business community to join us in protecting access to reproductive healthcare in the critical months and years to come."
Retail workers nationwide are united for respect
Workers around the country are fighting back, taking creative actions and pushing legislators and pension funds to act.