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Alabama Amazon worker testifies before Congress: “We’re not robots.”
March 18, 2021Amazon worker Jennifer Bates brought the details to a March 17 Senate Budget Committee hearing on the growing chasm between the rich and the rest of us.
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Environmentalists seek climate action in U.S. infrastructure bill
March 17, 2021Environmental groups are launching a $10 million push for Congress to make climate change central to infrastructure legislation.
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Columbia University forces TAs, RAs to strike, again
March 17, 2021The forced strike “is a showdown between the academic 1% of deans and administrators and the 99% of younger academic workers,” the union says.
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One year later: Don’t forget about Breonna Taylor
March 17, 2021Her death sparked a movement for change. The fight goes beyond a trending hashtag, though, and speaks to the inequalities and racism that are still very much embedded in our system.
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Biden administration ‘tackling’ difficult border situation, progressives say step up the pace
March 17, 2021Homeland Security Chief Mayorkas defends what he says are attempts to break with Trump policy.
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