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  1. Behind the Kitchen Door: Serving Food While Sick women protesting for sick days
    4 Apr 2014 … The vast majority of restaurants across the country pressure their employees to work while sick or injured, writes activist Saru Jayaraman in this book excerpt. Continue reading
  2. What Inspired Robert F. Kennedy’s Fight Against Hunger
    6 Jun 2012 … See photo depictions of life for poor African Americans in rural Mississippi in the late 1960s. Continue reading
  3. Last-Ditch Effort By Republicans to Replace ACA: What You Need to Know Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks as (left to right) Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. John Thune (R-SD), and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during a news briefing after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, DC on Sept. 19, 2017. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … Republican efforts in Congress to “repeal and replace” the federal Affordable Care Act are back from the dead. Again. Continue reading
  4. Bank of America Settlement and the Need for Legal Aid Lawyers FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2009 file photo, a Bank of America branch office is shown in New York. The Bank of America said Tuesday, June 29, 2011 it will pay $8.5 billion to settle with investors over housing crash claims. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
    8 Aug 2014 … Last week, the bank agreed to a record-setting $16.65 billion settlement for selling toxic mortgage securities during the housing boom. The deal includes $30 million for legal aid programs, but it's not enough. Continue reading
  5. 10 Great 2014 Social Justice Documentary Films
    12 Dec 2014 … In this day and age, the best documentary directors don’t lead with the issue, they focus on story and let the social relevance emerge from the narrative. Continue reading
  6. The Candidates’ Battle for America’s Middle Class Trump and Clinton are making a pitch for the votes of an activist middle class. (Hollywata/Flickr cc 2.0)
    8 Aug 2016 … If Donald Trump can get over his nonsense about President Obama being the “Founder” of ISIS and his hassling Gold Star families and fellow Republicans, Campaign 2016 can get to America’s core issue — economic inequality and the rival pitches Continue reading
  7. Morning Reads: Governors’ Dark Money; Is the War on Terror Ending?
    1 Jan 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  8. The Push and Pull Towards an Inclusive Nation Talley Wells - I Am Olmstead selfie
    7 Jul 2015 … In the years since Olmstead and the passage of the ADA, we as a country have engaged in the difficult and revolutionary work of real inclusion. Continue reading
  9. The Songs Are Free Bernice Johnson Reagon - The Songs Are Free (Photo: The Songs Are Free)
    2 Feb 1991 … Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock and curator of the Community Life Division of the Smithsonian Institution, discusses how black music has shaped the African-American experience and identity. Continue reading
  10. ‘Poetry Is Pure Research for the Human Project’
    4 Apr 2017 … April is National Poetry Month, and we’re celebrating by featuring examples of “civic” poetry from new and familiar voices. Throughout the month we’ll be discussing what it means to be civic through the art of words. Join us on Twitter at #civicpoetry. Continue reading