Sarah Lahm is a Minneapolis-based writer and former English Instructor. She writes the Midwest Dispatch column for the Progressive magazine, and her work has appeared in other local and national outlets.

Labor
In Minnesota, the Largest Private-Sector Nurses Strike in U.S. History
Protesting understaffing and low pay, Minnesota nurses hit the picket line in a “fight for our very profession.”

Rural America
Rural Minnesota Is Getting Less White. Meet the Progressive Women Running to Make the Government Less White, Too.
Immigrants, come to work meatpacking and farm jobs, have rejuvenated Nobles County. These women aim to make sure they're represented.

Labor
“Bezos, Our Backs Are Tired”: Amazon Workers Strike on Prime Day

Labor
The Trump Administration’s War on Federal Workers

Labor
McDonald’s Retreat on Fighting Wage Increases Shows the Tide Is Turning

Labor
Pennsylvania Workers Are Waging the Biggest U.S. Manufacturing Strike in the Trump Era

Feature
Food Stamps and Rental Assistance Are Now in Jeopardy as Trump’s Government Shutdown Continues
The shutdown’s impact on the poor is about to get a lot worse.

Labor
Here’s Why Thousands of Steelworkers Just Voted to Authorize a Strike

Labor
On the Disturbing Return of Black Lung

Labor
50,000 University of California Workers Are Still on Strike. One Key Reason: Outsourcing.

Labor
Arizona Teachers Are Out On the Largest Strike in State History. Here’s Why.

Labor
Nearly 5,000 JetBlue Flight Attendants Just Voted To Unionize, in a Major Win for Airline Labor

Labor
Here’s Why Teachers Are Prepared to Defy Arizona’s Anti-Strike Laws

Labor
An Oakland Coal Terminal Is Officially Stalled—Thanks To a Labor-Environmental Alliance

Labor
The Super Bowl Is Taking Over Minneapolis and Residents Are Mad as Hell

Feature
How Middle Schoolers Forced Their Administration to Stop Celebrating Indigenous Genocide
Students say their school should not be named after Alexander Ramsey, a historical figure who called for the extermination of Native Americans.

Labor
If Education Reformers Are Concerned About a Teacher Shortage, Then Why Are They Attacking Teachers?

Labor
Will St. Paul, Minnesota Teachers Soon Be Out on Strike?

Feature
After Teachers Expose Racist Phonics Curriculum, Minneapolis Schools Cut Contract
Activists said the reading materials were untested, insensitive and clueless.

Feature
Meet the Latest Secret Free-Market Group That Wants to Take Over Your Public School
The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has been an invisible player in the free-market education reform movement.

Labor
Billionaire-Backed Group Spends Unprecedented $290K in Minneapolis School Board Race

Labor
Why Are Teach for America and a California Billionaire Investing in a Minnesota School Board Race?