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Leaders of five of the world’s emerging economic powers agreed Wednesday to create a development bank to help fund their $4.5 trillion infrastructure plans — a direct challenge to the World Bank that they accuse of Western bias.

The Freelancers Union is using healthcare benefits as an organizing tool. So far it has been quite successful.

an alternative model of inclusive development that serves the interests of the majority in society

the assault on democracy in Detroit and Michigan—and, it should be noted, numerous other states

Feminism almost always needs a modifier

Today, the Freelancers Union is one of the nation’s fastest-growing labor organizations, with more than 200,000 members, over half of them in New York State. Ms. Horowitz, who has never lacked audacity, says she expects to expand the organization to one million members within three years.