The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch
The Federal Underclass
The Department of Veterans Affairs is paying some of its employees—including veterans—close to poverty wages.
Joseph Riedel
Labor
Packing Plant Stuck with Beef, While Laid-Off Workers Demand Wages
Kari Lydersen
Video
In Search of a Veterans’ Trust Fund
Jeremy Gantz

Labor
Women Begin Day 4 of White House Hunger Strike Over Border Region Poverty
Rose Arrieta
Weekly Diaspora: ICE Deports Children, Disabled and Victims of Violence
Catherine Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
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Viewpoint
All Is Not (Yet) Lost
Susan J. Douglas
Labor
After Loss, Flight Attendants Challenge Delta’s Anti-Union Tactics, Both Old and New
David Moberg

Labor
U.S. Labor Law an Irrelevant ‘Anachronism,’ Says Prominent Harvard Economist
Akito Yoshikane
Weekly Pulse: The Coming War on Health Reform and Government Cheese
Lindsay Beyerstein
