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About 815,000 jobs have been lost in the American public sector since the start of the pandemic and job recovery in the public sector has lagged behind the private sector.

Working in US public sector feels untenable for many amid lack of benefits, low pay and lack of general investment.

More than 1.2 million Americans are currently displaced from their homes because of climate change impacts—including increasingly severe storms, wildfires, and flooding.

The city will decide on a sweeping measure that would limit the size, scope and influence of its police department.

In Vermont, everyone loves clean energy—when it comes from someplace else

After half a century studying the issue, here's lesson number one: Wars are bad and empire is folly.

This award-winning collection of short stories, writes reviewer Simms, "stands within a tradition of writing that’s about the beauty and burden of Black life within oppressive social systems."

Indigenous peoples in action on five continents! And more news and analysis from all over

A union president explains how labor should adjust to changing times.

What I learned in 1991 is no less true today and no less important for people to understand: responses to sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence must start with a belief that women matter as much as the powerful men they encounter at work or at school, whether those men are bosses or professors, colleagues or fellow students.