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Labor unions ranging across several types of frontline workers today joined environmental groups in a lawsuit against the federal government.

Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown points to a caution: “if you hear/Of me dead anywhere near/A cop, then that cop killed me.”

The searchers, in an area about 1,150 miles west of Perth, have stumbled onto the eastern edge of a garbage gyre in the Indian Ocean.

Carl Levin's subcommittee on investigations says the equipment-maker routed money through a Swiss subsidiary.

Eight proposals to jump-start the incomes of workers.

Big Oil seems to be using veterans to push its Keystone XL agenda.

Campaigns to raise the minimum wage, such as the "Fight for $15" campaign among fast food workers, are not just about raising the minimum wage. They are about changing the social relationships and balance of power embodied in the wage. Through opening this struggle, low-wage workers compel us to rethink again who is a "breadwinner." The campaigns also push us to revisit past campaigns that fought for living wages and also for work to have social value.

Public school students in the state are increasingly isolated by race and class as the proportion of minority and poor students continues to grow.