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Low prices or livable wages? Let’s discuss
October 10, 2014My brother read my recent article on income inequality and asked me a question that I think is more generally at play in the debate: "Won't the costs of increasing the minimum wage simply be passed...
Read moreAFT exposes for-profit charter school industry
March 6, 2014AFT is launching a campaign to expose the for-profit charter school industry as more interested in profits for its CEOs and stockholders than it is in teaching kids.
Read moreToday in labor history: The Pemberton Mill disaster
January 10, 2014In the worst industrial disaster in Mass. state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapsed on January 10, 1860, trapping 900 workers, most of them recent immigrants, many women and children.
Read moreMexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer
January 6, 201420 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, farmers and workers in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada suffer from corporate profiteering.
Read moreIs this what for-profit health care looks like?
January 6, 2014The movement to hold California-based Prime Healthcare Services accountable grows.
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