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The Philippines has long relied on the remittances of its more than 2 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), without concerning itself with their reintegration. Now COVID-19 has exposed the deep-seated cracks in its labor export-based economy.

As he prepared to march through Kenosha, Justin Blake had his own message: “We do not want you to leave here not fully understanding that the Blake family, one day, will get justice.”

New Mexico’s reliance on oil and gas makes it extremely vulnerable to the industry’s boom and bust cycle, and has not led to good outcomes in education and social welfare. Now some of New Mexico’s leading economists say it’s time to change course.

We are at a turning point. Despite Trump’s defeat, internationally the forces of the right promote rampant free-market economics, racism and militarism to protect a failed status quo. This year we need to promote the alternative.

It was a story he had chosen not to tell — until 2015, when he sat for a four-hour interview, promised that this account would not be published while he was alive.

An explainer on non-contract unions, how workers at Alphabet are using this structure to build and maintain power, and why you should too.

“I was trying to understand, on a smaller scale than national politics,” writes Vermont poet Rebecca Starks, “how an obvious falsehood can seem obviously true to someone else.”

Leaked files from IRI Consultants, a top union avoidance firm hired by Google, show how it collects data on workers' personality, motivations, and work ethic to bust unions.