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Unions Are the Key to America’s Cost of Living Crisis

Liz Shuler and Heidi Shierholz TIME
A promise of a union is that workers will share in the profit they create. As soon as wealthy executives saw their bottom lines under threat, they attacked unions. The research proves what workers have always known: It's better in a union.

This Week in People’s History, October 21–27, 2026

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Theater poster for the 1936 play 'It Can't Happen Here'
‘It Can’t Happen Here’ Is the Ironic Title of a Story about a Fascist Takeover of the U.S. that is Foiled in the End – Will There Come a Day When It Stops Being Ironic Because the Story Doesn’t Have a Happy Ending?