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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.

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…

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.

A Worker’s Take On The New Overtime Proposal

July 6, 2015

By Wendi C. Thomas

Originally posted on Talk Poverty and The Nation. As a manager for a national auto supply chain, Lora McCrary puts in between 50 and 70 hours a week remodeling stores…

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