The Wisconsin Idea
Wisconsin Schools Called Police on Students at Twice the National Rate
School officials refer thousands of children to the police each year. In Wisconsin, children with disabilities or who are Black, Latino or Native bear the brunt of it.
Angelica Euseary, Clare Amari and Robert Chappell
Labor
The Rank-and-File Fight for Direct Democracy at UAW
A conversation with Justin Mayhugh, a worker at General Motors in Kansas City, about a referendum on whether UAW members can directly elect top union officers.
Maximillian Alvarez
Labor
Happy Striketober. Let's Restore the Legal Right to Strike.
Now's the perfect time to fight for the right to return to a job once a strike is over.
Shaun Richman
Dispatch
The $250 Difference: A Lifeline for Working Families May Disappear this December
Most U.S. welfare programs are either targeted or means-tested — the Child Tax Credit breaks this mold.
Bryce Covert
Viewpoint
"Support Afghan Women" Must Be More Than a Platitude
When the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, it froze billions of dollars in Afghan assets, grinding many of the country’s most essential operations to a halt and spreading misery. The U.S. government must release those funds.
Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold
Labor
She's a 64-Year-Old Taxi Driver Drowning in Medallion Debt—And She's Fighting Back
Dorothy LeConte is part of a movement of taxi drivers demanding that the city of New York relieve their financial anguish.
Luis Feliz Leon
LaborInvestigationGoodman Institute
How Workers at Beverage Giant Refresco Defeated a “Notorious” Union Buster
Refresco has waged a prolonged and costly fight to stop the workers from unionizing.
Alice Herman
Viewpoint
Postal Banking Is Finally a Reality in (Some of) the United States
A pilot postal banking program has been implemented in a number of U.S. cities. Next, let’s rapidly expand it—and take it nationwide.
Donald Cohen
Labor
Kellogg's Workers Are Striking Against a "Two-Tiered" System of Workplace Inequality
A conversation with Dan Osborn, who has worked at the Omaha, Nebraska, plant for 18 years.
Maximillian Alvarez
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