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Hundreds of thousands of kids are dying every year because pharmaceutical companies are making record profits off a life-saving vaccine.

From First Nations activism to innovative city initiatives, the West Coast is leading the fight against global warming even as many countries lag behind.

Economic justice activists are championing laws that shift the costs of toxic poverty wages from communities to corporations.

In spite of the growing sense of disbelief and horror surrounding the lead contamination of drinking water in the Michigan city of Flint, at least one thing is clear: that the catastrophic levels of pollution and destruction are a direct result of the extreme policies pursued by the Michigan's right-wing leadership.

California leads the nation in having the most severely rent-burdened households, as well as having the largest shortage of affordable rental homes. (The U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development and other agencies consider families that spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent as rent-burdened.)

The United States rarely sees massive collaborative actions involving workers across unions and industries and non-union activists. Elsewhere in the world, such strikes—whether symbolic daylong actions or more prolonged walkoffs—are more commonplace.

"It is an outrage that the secretary of state in Ohio is going out of his way to keep young people — significantly African-American young people, Latino young people — from participating." Sanders said.

The bill, which specifies abortion care should not be mentioned when discussing healthcare options for pregnant women, is now awaiting governor's approval.

Worker Ownership and Cooperatives Will Not Succeed by Competing on Capitalism's Terms.

Gig workers include Uber and Lyft drivers, DoorDash and Postmates food delivery drivers, Handy house cleaners and Amazon "flex" workers who deliver packages. They are technically independent contractors who set their own terms of employment — taking as many or as few jobs as they want — but they have no control over wages, which can be changed at a whim by the companies in charge.