A former labor writer for the Chicago Tribune, Stephen Franklin is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Labor and Employment Relations.
Franklin, who speaks Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish, spent time in Egypt teaching journalists while on a Knight International Press Fellowship. He has received two Lisagor awards for business reporting and a George Polk Award for consumer interest reporting with Marcia Stepanek at the Detroit Free Press in 1983. Franklin lives on the North Side of Chicago with his wife, director of a local social services agency. The couple have two children.
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A Brief History of Labor Unsolidarity: AFL-CIO and Change to Win
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When We Can’t Afford to Be Sick: Access to Healthcare Drops Along with Economy
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We All Fall Down? America’s New Economic Reality
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50 Years After Murrow’s ‘Harvest of Shame,’ What’s Changed?
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The Speed-Up in the Fields
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These Stains Do Not Wash Away: An Immigrant’s Tale
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How Would You Like Brigido Oregon’s Job?
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Welfare: A Worsening Deal for Nearly Everyone Involved
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In Egypt, Arab World’s ‘Largest Social Movement’ Gains Steam Among Workers
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Andy Stern: The Man With a Plan Who Lost His Way
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Axed in a Flash: Surviving Life After Layoffs
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What Happens When the Poor Get Even Poorer?
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Open Season on Working Poor, as Tax Day Nears
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How Immigrants Help the Economy—and Unions
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More Bad News From the Job Market
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Post-Migration America? Staying in Place in Dire Times
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Up in the Air, With Nowhere to Go. What’s Your Lay-Off Story?
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The Dollar General Deal: Report Alleges Abuses at Chinese Plants
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Who Are the Worst Corporate Scrooges of All?
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Where Have All the Labor Writers Gone?
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Black, Urban Neighborhoods are Unemployment’s Epicenter
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Waiting on the Street Corner, Waiting For a Miracle
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Trucker’s Dream? Obama Reconsiders 11th-Hour Bush Decision
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The Workers Behind the Burgers
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U.S. Poverty: If Only We Knew How Bad It Really Is
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On a Night Train in Egypt, Where Poverty is a Traveler Too
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Step Up and Play the (Jobless) Recovery Game.
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They Pick Empty Pockets: Study Finds Wage Theft Rampant
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Social Safety Nets Beyond Frayed, as States Slash Budgets
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Say It Ain’t So: NYC Carpenters Union Dirties Labor’s Name
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Latina Temp Workers Hope Against Hope
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Time to Fix OSHA
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The Scourge of Long-Term Joblessness
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Labor Dept. Fails the Wage Theft Test
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In Chicago, Desperation’s on the Corner
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The Invisible Army of Unemployed
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