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“Wealth work” is one of America’s fastest-growing industries. It includes full-time retail and service jobs at nail salons and spas, as well as that nebulous network of people contracted through through driving, delivery and other online services.

The territory has been rocked by protests ending in violent clashes with police. Demonstrators have five key demands

"We value Walmart and our fellow associates, but we are no longer willing to contribute our labor to a company that profits from the sale of deadly weapons."

LeftRoots, a socialist group with majorities of women and people of color, is strategizing to win.

The pitfalls of renting a ridesharing-based transit system instead of paying the mortgage on lasting public-infrastructure investment are already becoming clear.

Twitter; Whitewashing the Shootings; That Times Headline; Warren for Net Accessibility; Schmucker; Facebook and Surveillance; Cops Propagandize Online

The raids could discourage future complaints of worker abuse.

Trump is the gasoline for this explosion of murder, while 8chan — and other ideological white nationalists — are merely the match.

There has been a sea change in the last few weeks, a deepening of the crisis of racial and cultural division in this country, instigated by the President of the United States.

Last week my travels across the continent and among railroad track workers found me between Phoenix and East L.A.