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This Labor Day We’re Quiet Quitting Rugged Individualism

September 3, 2022

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Collective action has enjoyed a resurgence in our post-COVID world.

The Disposable Industries: Calls to Reopen the Economy Ask Workers to Put their Health At Risk

May 8, 2020

By Stephanie Land

Back in my early 20s, I proudly wore the job title of “coffee girl.” I had five years of experience by the time I was 22, working full-time at a…

We’re Making Significant Steps Toward a New Federal Minimum Wage

August 29, 2019

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

In my years participating in progressive movements, fighting “the good fight” alongside other visionary activists and progressives with very different personalities, different strategies, and different campaigning styles, I have noticed…

How The Gig Economy is Changing Work As We Know It

August 23, 2019

By Catherine Bugayong

As the gig economy continues to grow, how has it changed the way we think of work, the economy, and laborers? In this episode of “A Living Wage,” Catherine Bugayong…

Striking hotel workers: ‘One job should be enough’

November 19, 2018

By Catherine Bugayong

In October, hotel workers from across the country began a strike demanding higher wages, better healthcare, job stability and a host of other concerns. Several of them came to visit…

Supporting Food Entrepreneurs for Equity and Stronger Communities

October 31, 2018

By Christen Hill

We can strengthen our communities by creating food systems that create new jobs and businesses through the people living here. DREAM (Dreaming Out Loud’s Ready for Entrepreneurship Accelerator Modules) is…

The hourly reality of life on a ‘living wage’

October 24, 2018

By Catherine Bugayong

I am one of the 7.6 million Americans who has to work multiple jobs. I work three jobs so that I can meet my living expenses, pay bills, have health…

Justice for marginalized communities not a factor in filling SCOTUS seat; it’s up to us to vote, voice our concerns now

July 10, 2018

By Alaina Beverly

Whether you care about voting rights, affirmative action, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights and especially a woman’s right to control her own body, filling retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s…

May Day, May Day! Immigrant workers and low-wage workers unite

April 28, 2017

By Micaela Watts

Struggle to survive on poverty wages builds solidarity among workers

Immigrant Rights Are Workers Rights

April 25, 2017

By Thomas Kennedy

Bad policies that harm working Americans continue to chip away at our aspirations to strive.

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