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How union members pay it forward
More and more workers want to join unions amid the high grocery prices, spiraling health care costs and other failures of today’s uncertain economy.
How this federal legislation would save veterans’ lives
Marcelo Assis, president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 12000 at Southern Connecticut Gas, fervently believes the nation needs to do a better job of reaching out to those who served and connecting them to the assistance they earned.
How union membership leads to a great life
Unions anchor millions of Americans in the middle class, enabling these workers to leverage a stronger work-life balance than peers at nonunion workplaces.
How Trump betrayed workers by gutting the Inflation Reduction Act
Community leaders united behind the initiative. And then Donald Trump stabbed them all in the back.
How Medicaid helps to empower Americans and build a stronger nation
Americans fervently support Medicaid, in part because so many depended on it at one time or know someone who survived because of it.
United Steelworkers lead mobilization drive as American unions face growing vulnerability
The USW must navigate factionalism while championing labor rights amid rising anti-union pressures and global trade fragmentation.
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Civil rights groups sue HHS over records tied to $10 billion childcare funding freeze
Advocates say the Trump administration must disclose how disputed fraud allegations involving Somali childcare providers became the basis for sweeping restrictions on federal aid.
Trump slaps 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian goods
The duties will hit Canadian cars, dairy products, alcohol and consumer goods, raising the threat of higher prices and further damage to the United States’ largest trading relationship.
5 lessons from 20 years of climate surveys: Political party matters, but it doesn’t...
Those patterns may go against the partisan rhetoric of our times, but they reflect the reality that Americans do not sort neatly into simple camps on climate change.
Justice Department drops multiple corporate crime investigations
A reported decision to abandon several major corporate crime cases has raised concerns that the federal government is easing pressure on corporate misconduct.
What blind Lord of Misrule keeps showing he can’t avoid wrack and ruin, leans hard on dumb Big Lies, and expects different outcomes?
“Trump’s self-love, not Iran, is global enemy No 1. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction.”