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If Salvation Army residential work employees earned at least a minimum wage and overtime pay, program participants would be properly compensated for their labor rather than exploited, overworked, and underpaid.

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From deftly handling hostile Donald Trump to securing real economic gains for workers, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum ends her first year in office with remarkable 80% approval rating. Now the real fight for Mexico’s economic sovereignty begins

Interview with Bashir Abu-Manneh & Hoda Mitwally on how US activists can more effectively support Palestinians. Two years after Oct 7, public outrage against Israel is widespread, yet grassroots solidarity nowhere near as powerful as it needs to be.

Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government. President Trump posted an AI video of Vought as the Grim Reaper. The Project 2025 architect has lived up to the billing

"I think we're at a point where anything from the federal government has to be treated with a certain amount of skepticism, if not suspicion," one expert told TPM.

Internationalism on the rise

Two cutting-edge researchers examine the scourge of anti-science.

Two years after members of AFSCME Local 1279 in Jacksonville, Florida, had their union decertified by the state, they have won it back.

It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars, and the end of public schools as we know them.