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  1. When the Workday Never Really Ends Grace Tan, right, bags up a grocery purchases for Angela Coffer and her daughters at a Gladstone, Missouri, Walmart. (Photo: Walmart/flickr CC 2.0)
    10 Oct 2014 … The "new economy" has created a demand for "flexible" workers, but it's creating a new social order that brings chaos to the workplace and the home. Continue reading
  2. Anti-Nuclear Pacifists Get Federal Prison Terms for Nonviolent Protest
    11 Nov 2020 … The most dedicated peace activists you’ve never heard of are headed to federal prison amid a deadly pandemic. Continue reading
  3. Morning Reads: Clinton Outlines Economic Vision; More Racial Gerrymandering in North Carolina WARREN, MI - AUGUST 11: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets workers before delivering a speech on the U.S economy at Futuramic Tool & Engineering August 11, 2016 in Warren, Michigan. In her speech, Clinton contrasted her economic plan to that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at BillMoyers.com HQ... Continue reading
  4. Domestic Workers’ Dream Unfulfilled
    7 Jul 2013 … In 1963, Representative John Lewis, then the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), spoke to the several hundred thousand Americans who had gathered before the Lincoln Memorial and who would soon hear Dr. King give his electrifying “I Continue reading
  5. I Grew Up in Flint. Here’s Why Governor Snyder Must Resign. FLINT, MI - JANUARY 23: The City of Flint Water Plant is illuminated by moonlight on January 23, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. A federal state of emergency has been declared in Flint due to dangerous levels of contamination in the water supply. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2016 … Flint isn’t the only city in Michigan experiencing this decline. In fact, Flint was one of six cities — most of which were poor and had a majority black population — to be placed under emergency management by Governor Snyder Continue reading
  6. How America Punishes People for Being Poor
    10 Oct 2014 … If we are truly interested in building an America that is defined by opportunity, we must commit to policies that support rather than impede upward mobility. Continue reading
  7. Netanyahu’s “Us or Them” Is Nothing But Trouble Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
    3 Mar 2015 … Netanyahu has learned some other lessons from American politics that are far uglier and more brutish than polling techniques and media training. Continue reading
  8. Earth Conservation Corps
    7 Jul 2007 … Finding meaning in the blight of Anacostia, Washington, D.C. -- a look at the Earth Conservation Corps. Continue reading
  9. Trade Expert: Why TPP — “NAFTA on Steroids” — Must Be Stopped
    1 Jan 2014 … Global Trade Watch's Lori Wallach says that none of the promises that were used to sell NAFTA have come to fruition, and they're being repeated for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Continue reading
  10. Social Democracy Is 100-Percent American Ladies Tailors Strike
    7 Jul 2015 … On this Fourth of July weekend, anyone who thinks social democracy is un-American doesn't know their history. Continue reading