Lauren Kaori Gurley is a staff writer at VICE’s Motherboard on the labor beat. She is a former contributing writer to Rural America In These Times and In These Times intern. You can follow her on Twitter @laurenkgurley.
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Treated Like Meat: Women in Meatpacking Say #MeToo
At the world’s largest pork processing company, Smithfield Foods, workers say as long as lines are moving fast, supervisors who sexually harass them get a free pass.
Rural America
“I’m as Poor as Shit”: A Look at Downward Mobility in Lancaster, Ohio
Feature
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty
Unemployment, depopulation and the legacy of slavery in Jefferson County, Miss.
Rural America
West Virginia, “Identity Decline” and Why Democrats Must Not Look Away From the Rural Poor
Rural America
What Will it Take to Build a Local Foods Movement?
Labor
In Landslide Election, University of Chicago Adjuncts Vote to Form Union
Feature
Bernie Sanders Just Won TIME’s Person of the Year Reader’s Poll—And It Wasn’t Even Close
The democratic socialist came out far, far ahead of both Clinton and Trump.
Rural America
America’s Rural Poor: Pictures from a World That Many Don’t See
Labor
Teach Classes in the Morning, Drive Uber at Night: Why Chicago Adjuncts Are Demanding a Union
Rural America
Why the Left Isn’t Talking About Rural American Poverty