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State Efforts to Block Local Minimum Wage Laws

NELP National Employment Law Project
Ultimately, preemption of local minimum wage laws is a priority for big business. Advocates, workers, and legislators who support an economy that works for all should oppose the preemption of local minimum wage laws.

The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism

James Robertson Jacobin
Yugoslavia’s “self-managed” socialism appeared to be a real alternative to the Soviet model. Why did it collapse so suddenly?

Life Jacket

Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad Heart Journal Online
The New York poet Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad offers a soulful Life Jacket to those displaced and forlorn by international tragedies: "remember," she writes, "you were born first/into a province of hope."