110 Degrees in the Truck: Sanitation Workers Deserve Better
Terrill Haigler Photo credit: Hibbard Nash Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed
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Deindustrialization, Working-Class Decline, and the Growth of Health Care
Photo caption: University of Pittsburgh Medical Tower, formerly the U.S. Steel Tower. Credit: Douglas Mouth, Flickr Far beyond what we
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From Universal Rent Control to Cancel Rent: Tenant Organizing in New York State
By Celia Weaver New York’s housing crisis is so entrenched that it is understood to be nearly inevitable. “The rent
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Backstage with a Makeup Artist
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Cynthia O’Rourke, a makeup artist and member
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No Worker Left Behind: Protecting Workers and Communities in the Green New Deal
The transition to a climate-safe economy will produce millions of new jobs. But it will also require the elimination or
Read moreDo Socialists Believe in a Family Wage?
By Suzanne Kahn At the start of The Socialist Manifesto, by Bhaskar Sunkara, which seeks to reclaim the history of socialism
Read moreSafety Nets: An International Comparison
According to the International Labour Organization website, only 27 percent of the global population has adequate access to social protection
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Motherwork Is Work: A Welfare Warrior Speaks
I raised three sons as a single mom on welfare when they were very young, and then again when they
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Mourning King: The Civil Rights Movement and the Fight for Economic Justice
Did Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination mark the end of a movement merging racial and economic justice?
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Indentured Studenthood: The Higher Education Act and the Burden of Student Debt
Promising 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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