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Dollar General is one of the lowest-paying major retail chains, with average wages barely above the $7.25 federal minimum. Low pay is made worse by the lack of hours allotted to workers. In response workers are starting to organize.

Chileans rekindle the torch of democracy, and a green wave ousts Australia’s Tories

The Golden State is set to spend its capital gains haul on massive public investments in climate.

In April, 8.3% of disabled Americans were unemployed, compared with 3.1% of those without a disability.

Fifty years out, we can look back and say with certainty that the U.S. landscape on gender equity would look very different today without Title IX. And the legislation continues to play an important role in shaping the future.

The world's ruling elites have chosen to place their geopolitical rivalries above all other critical concerns, including planetary salvation.

Founded before Roe v. Wade, the Vermont Women’s Health Center helped make abortion safe and accepted, showing that women’s liberation is connected to freedom for all.

Romance novels are misunderstood. So is the working class.

Teachers have underwritten the underfunded public school system with their pocketbooks and after-school hours, stealing both time and money from their families to provide for their students. Normal was awful. It is time to be bold.

As it turns out, high-earners won't leave if you increase their taxes.