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A new report provides a roadmap to creating a post-pandemic food system with greater fairness, fewer adverse climate impacts and better health outcomes.

As the US Treasure finalizes the rules on the use of American Rescue Plan money, they should prioritize workers most impacted by the public health and economic crisis and spend funds in ways to maximize equality.

The owners of capitalist society would like us to see politics as its own sphere of activity completely separate from the economy.

The original Gossip Girl sold viewers a romantic fantasy — then proved the fantasy was always a lie.

Skilled construction jobs can transform lives

“I wrote this poem in response to the sense of horror I felt,” says New Orleans poet Skye Jack, “and in memory of my ancestors who would not have been given the privilege to refuse their touch.”

Many unions sent buses full of supporters from all across the South. There were CWA and UAW members. There were teamsters, teachers, government workers and longshoremen all in union t-shirts. This is what solidarity looks like.

The books under review give manifold examples of how Britain’s austerity regime penalizes differentially abled people, but the examples are equally evocative of conditions in the US and elsewhere. The essay looks at how affected people fight back.

The National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, reintroduced on July 29, would establish a new set of standards for the people who work in our homes and take a vital step towards racial and gender equity.

Staff members at the Democratic National Committee are set to be represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 500.