COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus.
Overall, 661,000 jobs were added in the U.S. labor force between August and September — but women still left it at alarming numbers.
The California governor vetoed a bill that would have provided some of the 28,000 recently laid off Disney workers (and others) with additional COVID-19 work protections.
Kristin Urquiza’s father, Mark, died of COVID last June. Last month Urquiza wrote, “He was terrified of dying but he also felt betrayed” by President Trump and Arizona governor Doug Ducey. Now Urquiza fears Trump personally exposed her to the virus.
Georgia's first large outbreaks, took place in its rural southwest counties, mainly affected Black people, who are the majority of poultry workers in that region. Pres. Trump's executive order declared processing plants "critical infrastructure."
The Lightfoot administration intercepted at least $27 million in 2020 from residents’ state tax refunds to collect on debt, disproportionately hitting lower income neighborhoods and communities of color.
Unions are uncommon in the ad industry. But the disappearance of thousands of agency jobs in the pandemic and agencies’ growing use of AI to perform tasks like media planning and buying, and market research, could make unionization more appealing,
The polio vaccine highlights the networks of women—some scientists, some not, some named, and some not—who made the laborious, costly, and difficult work of vaccine development possible.
A deepening COVID-19 crisis–now surging in most California agricultural counties–puts farmworkers in the pandemic’s crosshairs.
The upward redistribution of income has cost Americans workers $50 trillion over the past several decades. On average, extreme inequality is costing the median income full-time worker about $42,000 a year.
This article is part of a series on how workers are organizing in response to COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Depression.
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