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Reporter Alice Driver’s new book “The Life and Death of the American Worker” is an accounting of the lives and working conditions faced by poultry and meatpacking workers in Arkansas, where Tyson Foods is headquartered.

Split Supreme Court affirms Secretary of State’s claim that supporters didn’t submit right documents at the correct time.

Bang! Now what?

A federal appeals court decision is so outlandish that the Supreme Court will almost certainly reverse it.

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These companies should be paying for the long-term health and safety of these communities and these workers referring to the importance of establishing just transition community funds, akin to the Black Lung Program, paid for by excise tax on coal.

These workers have a beautiful voice, a powerful voice. The only problem is that nobody wants to hear them.

...on the night of September 30, one hundred years ago, ...about 100 African Americans met to organize the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America, a union of land owners, tenants, and sharecroppers.