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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,

Led by people directly impacted by imprisonment, organizations in California have been building on the growing national momentum to end the money bail system.

The labor movement has suffered constant attacks and a demoralizing decline. But labor unions were in bad shape in the 1920s and came back. What can we learn from history?

Teachers and education workers in Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the country (after New York), voted 98 percent to 2 percent to authorize their first strike in nearly 30 years.

To understand the significance of Ozark it must be considered in the context of a proliferation of series about the cartels, which are indelibly tied to current US-Mexican border policy and attitudes to race in the US.

Fueled by debt and years of easy credit, America’s energy boom is on shaky footing.

Republicans are siding with a Democratic segregationist over a GOP war hero to own the libs.

Harvey Washington Wiley, a do-gooder farm boy who trained as chemist, worried that preservatives might be harming the public. The trials' shocking results led to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and eventually to the creation of the FDA.

Donald Trump, Jr. blames Democrats for the death of Mollie Tibbetts. Racist robocalls traced to neo-Nazi group target Andrew Gillum. Open, blatant appeals to racism are now the daily common political currency of Trump and the Ultra Right.