Poverty

Orlando unionists organize for more worker power

September 9, 2013 By Ben Markeson

ORLANDO, Fla. - Even in a state with a "right-to-work" law like Florida, workers still need to join unions and leverage their power by collectively bargaining with employers.

Today in labor history: Social reformer Jane Addams is born

September 6, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Addams was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, a social Christian, and a leader in the women's suffrage and peace movements. She was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sequester sends San Jose, Calif., rents through roof

September 3, 2013 By Henry Millstein

Some 17,000 tenants on the Federal Section 8 housing program in Santa Clara County recently received rent hikes of 10 percent or more. The area has very nearly the highest housing cost of any place in...

Agrarian strike in Colombia triggers repression, wider struggle

September 3, 2013 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Angry small farmers are rejecting free trade agreements Colombia signed with the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Rrural people in Colombia are suffering.Eight million Colombians are hungry,

Three generations march on Washington

August 23, 2013 By Elena Mora

I'm very proud that my father and uncle, Joe and Dennis Mora, were both at the 1963 March on Washington, one of many demonstrations and activities they participated in during the civil rights heyday.