Adjuncts Have a Hard Time: Unions at Rutgers Just Made It a Little Easier
Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Hank Kalet, a part-time lecturer in
Read moreEditor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Hank Kalet, a part-time lecturer in
Read moreSee below this article for an accompanying article, Modern Art/Ancient Wages, by Kitty Krupat. Decolonizing is hard work. Nor is
Read moreEditor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Jia Lee, a special education teacher
Read morePhoto caption: Teachers’ strike in Phoenix, Arizona on April 26, 2018. Photo credit: Eric Blanc By Eric Blanc In late
Read moreHighlights for April 30th The wildly successful teachers’ strike in West Virginia earlier this spring has not only inspired walkouts
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Read morePromising to do something about student debt has become the means for politicians to pretend they are doing something for the 99 percent. That was true even before the 2016 election campaign really got underway. Obama, after all, promised two free years of community college in his 2015 State of the Union address. That idea, like so many others from Republicans and Democrats, did not go anywhere, even though the most recent re-authorization of the 1965 Higher Education Act (HEA) expired in 2013. However, inaction is not just a symptom of Washington gridlock. The reality is that paying for college is a confounding, sprawling sector of the economy involving loans, grants, scholarships, and tax credits.
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