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  1. Why We Need a Universal Basic Income Fast food worker strikes in New York City, July 2013. (Photo by Annette Bernhardt/ flickr CC 2.0)
    9 Sep 2017 … As Labor Day approached this year, I awaited the lip service of Republicans praising “job creators” and business owners. I knew full well there was no chance they’d honor the common laborer — the people who feed, house and transport Continue reading
  2. The Older Americans Act and US Seniors Social worker Roberta Marzano with Caring People Alliance speaks with seniors at the Fels South Philadelphia Community Center in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. In light of Pennsylvania's six-week-old budget stalemate, Arlene Bell, the president and CEO of Caring People Alliance told her several hundred employees that this Friday's payroll would be slashed by more than half to keep the 77-year-old nonprofit's doors open to the children and elderly it serves. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    6 Jun 2013 … Because of sequestration, millions of dollars will be cut from the Great Society-era Older Americans Act during a time when our seniors can least afford it. Continue reading
  3. Biden’s Child Tax Credit as Universal Basic Income
    3 Mar 2021 … The most transformative part of the American Rescue Plan will be very hard for Republicans to reverse. Continue reading
  4. Class in America and Donald Trump Campaign supporters await the arrival of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Westfield, Indiana. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/AFP/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … In her new book, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Nancy Isenberg rips apart the myth that the United States is a class-free society, where hard work is rewarded by social mobility. In this email exchange, Continue reading
  5. Immokalee Workers Deliver on ‘Freedom From Want’ Farmworkers pick tomatoes at Taylor & Fulton Tomatoes in this March 30, 2006 file photo, in Immokalee, Fla. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)
    10 Oct 2013 … Fearless farmworkers show us the powerful potential of grassroots groups to agitate for change. Continue reading
  6. Protect and Strengthen Medicare and Medicaid Programs for Another 50 Years
    1 Jan 2015 … The government health care programs turn 50 this year. One advocate for the elderly argues that rising health care costs mean that strengthening and improving them is more important than ever. Continue reading
  7. So, IS Paul Ryan a Racist? House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
    3 Mar 2014 … Fighting about whether Paul Ryan is a racist is a very good thing. Continue reading
  8. Beyond Hate Moyers hate
    5 May 1991 … Moyers talks to those whose lives have been shaped by hate and those who have dedicated their lives to moving beyond it, including Elie Wiesel, Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Václav Havel and others. Continue reading
  9. Martin Luther King’s Fight for Workers’ Rights Leaders of March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom marching with signs. Left to right: Matthew Ahmann, Floyd McKissick Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., Eugene Carson Blake and Cleveland Robinson. (Photo by Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … Most Americans today know that Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, but few know why he was there. King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers, who were on strike to protest Continue reading
  10. People Over 75 Are First in Line to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19
    2 Feb 2021 … Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccinations for people 75 and up can leave out Black Americans, who tend to die younger than their white counterparts. In majority-Black Shelby County, this gap raises questions of how to make the vaccine rollout equitable. Continue reading