The Wisconsin Idea

Rural America

Agricultural Workers Lose Millions of Dollars Each Year to Employer Wage Theft

It’s against U.S. labor laws, but that hasn’t stopped employers from withholding more than $65 million in worker wages over the last two decades.

Pramod Acharya

Feature

The Pandemic Is Exposing the Rotten Core of Our Industrial Food System

While industrial farms have been thrown into chaos, local agriculture has proved to be a more resilient model.

Joseph Bullington

Labor

The Return of the Construction Industry Has Brought a Surge of Immigrant Worker Deaths

The rush to keep building through the pandemic has compounded the risks for construction workers.

Maurizio Guerrero

Viewpoint

U.S. Sanctions Are Strangling a Lebanon in Crisis

As Lebanon faces multiple, overlapping catastrophes, U.S. policies are making them worse.

Bilal El-Amine

Viewpoint

Now Comes the Difficult Work of Pushing the Biden-Harris Ticket Left

If Biden's VP pick Kamala Harris is a “weather vane,” then it’s up to progressives to change the weather.

Natalie Shure

Labor

The Largest Private-Sector Strike of the Year Is Headed for Union Victory

After nearly seven weeks on the picket line, Machinists union members will soon vote on a contract that includes everything they’re fighting for.

Jeremy Gantz

LaborClimate

The Green New Deal Just Won a Major Union Endorsement. What's Stopping the AFL-CIO?

Union support for the Green New Deal is growing. It's time for America's largest labor federation to get on board.

Mindy Isser

Feature

Mijente Stayed Out of the 2016 Election. Here’s Why It’s Going All In This Time.

Hispanic voters will comprise 13% of the electorate this year—the largest nonwhite demographic group of eligible voters. Mijente’s “Fuera Trump” campaign aims to mobilize them for the November election.

Ray Levy-Uyeda

Rural America

Animals and Plants Are Relocating Because of Climate Change. Should They Be Considered Invasive?

Jenny Morber