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"This moment provides opportunities to raise wage demands, but it must be a moment where workers organize in order to sustain and pursue demands for improvements in their living and working conditions.”

There is very little evidence that enhanced unemployment insurance benefits created sectoral labor shortages.

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How the infrastructure bill could easily be engineered to also build justice.

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Resisting racist police violence and voter suppression, and the beat goes on

The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension.

USPS is a vital source of decent jobs for Black workers. It could also narrow the racial wealth divide by expanding financial services.

Thousands of artists - visual artists, painters, playrights, actor, musicians, singers, and other creatives, were employed by the Federal government through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), between 1935-43.