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Like frogs in a slowly boiling pot, Americans are finally realizing how dire their labor situation is

Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All, on how well-meaning liberals paved the way for Trump

Kavanaugh’s confirmation will mark the triumph of a conservative legal counterrevolution aimed at neutralizing the use of law as an instrument of progressive social and economic reform.

"Those in power have absolutely no feeling any more for what the people are going through. That's why we want Stand Up, so that people like you and I get a voice, and that politics is done for the millions, not for billionaires."

“This has been a terrible 18 months-plus for working people in this country,” said Celine McNicholas, director of labor law and policy at the Economic Policy Institute. “It’s an unprecedented attack on workers.”

A recent presidential export policy directive, in fact, specifically instructs American diplomats to put special effort into promoting arms sales, effectively turning them into agents for the country’s largest weapons makers.

Whether the boats arrive on the Gaza coast or are hijacked by the Israeli navy, it makes little difference.

Californians are ready to fight to reclaim over $11 billion robbed every year from schools and local communities, shaping a new legacy of investment in the people of California.

VC-backed startups are commodifying need and undermining food banks and CSAs while they're at it. It's a market solution disguised as activism.

The problem facing working people in the U.S. is not just lack of jobs, but lack of good jobs. UE's Director of Communications takes a look at what kinds of policies produce good jobs, UE's history of fighting for good jobs and a democratic economy,