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Ninety percent of counties that lost population in the last decade backed the ex-president.

But children also burn out fast. Their high metabolisms make them particularly vulnerable to stunted growth and disease if they don’t get the calories they need.

The jump in benefits, the biggest in the program’s history, comes after a revision of the initiative’s nutrition standards that supporters say will reduce hunger and better reflect how Americans eat.

The U.S. now has an average of about 129,000 new COVID-19 cases per day, a rate that has doubled in a little over two weeks, and an average of 600 people are dying each day of COVID-19, double the death rate seen in late July.

As twenty million people took to the streets in 2020, why did so few pick up a brick? And would the movement to which they belong be better off if they had?

Reservation Dogs is a surreal mashup of hard-edged cynicism and deep longing, one that has a kinship with other stories about marginalized people struggling in the shadow of white folks.

Unit is among several new digital platforms that aim to ease the unionization process and empower workers to stand up to their bosses, but some union organizers have their doubts.

With a mobilized anti-immigrant anti-Mexican campaign, a majority of California voters could turn Republican once again. To avoid this calamity, every union, prodemocracy group, Latino political organization needs to organize to defeat the recall.

Arguments about ‘fair play’ are always hyped by owners who profit at the expense of the athletes who risk their health and careers every time they suit up.

The undermining of workers’ strike power since PATCO's defeat disabled what was a vital instrument for building and maintaining social solidarity and for directing inevitable class tensions and social conflict toward democratic and egalitarian ends.