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December 16, 2019

The New NAFTA Won’t Protect Workers’ Rights

David Bacon The Nation

Trump’s new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement repeats the disasters of the original agreement.

December 16, 2019

AMP Condemns Trump Executive Order to Suppress Palestine Campus Organizing

American Muslims for Palestine American Muslims for Palestine

Trump’s executive order will greatly exacerbate this repression with the intention of shutting down all campus activism for Palestinian rights, as promised by his campaign prior to his election.

December 16, 2019

State of Resistance – California Fights Back

Fred Glass The Stansbury Forum

At the same moment that Trump was riding his horse Xenophobe through a narrow passageway in the Electoral College to the presidency, California elected only Democrats..., extended progressive tax revenues and ...locked out anti-immigrant policy...

December 16, 2019

They Loan You Money. Then They Get a Warrant for Your Arrest.

Anjali Tsui ProPublica

High-interest loan companies are using Utah’s small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail money. Technically, the warrants are issued for missing court hearings. For many, that’s a distinction without a difference.

December 16, 2019

Health Care Costs Under Job-based Plans Have Grown Rapidly, While Wages Remained Flat

Alex Matthews, Laurel Lucia, and Dave Graham-Squire UC Berkeley Labor Center

chart showing rapid increase in plan costs and flat wages

For family coverage, the average premium was $20,843, equivalent to $10 per hour worked for a full-time worker—just two dollars less per hour than California’s current $12 minimum wage for employers with more than 25 workers.

December 16, 2019