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  1. Low Wage Employers Cost American Families a Quarter Trillion Dollars
    10 Oct 2013 … A new study says half of fast food workers are on public assistance programs that spend $243 billion each year on the working poor. Continue reading
  2. Maya Lin: Designer of Memorials Maya Lin
    3 Mar 2003 … Sculptor, architect, and designer Maya Lin catapulted to prominence when, as a senior at Yale University, she was chosen to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Bill Moyers talks with her about her upbringing and multifaceted career. Continue reading
  3. Can This Berniecrat Congressman Win Silicon Valley Over to His Progressive Agenda? Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) speaks with Roll Call in his office on June, 29, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    6 Jun 2017 … On an unseasonably warm day in June, Silicon Valley’s newest member of Congress held a town hall meeting in the gym of Milpitas High School — home of the Trojans. It was an apt venue for US Rep. Ro Khanna, Continue reading
  4. America’s Most Segregated Schools Aren’t Where You’d Think They’d Be Adofo Muhammad, center, principal of Bedford Academy High School, teaches 10th and 11th graders in his Global Studies class in the Brooklyn Borough of New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
    3 Mar 2014 … A new report says that for decades, New York State schools have been more segregated for blacks than any Southern state. Continue reading
  5. Justice After Charleston Charleston
    6 Jun 2015 … If we want to honor the memory of the Emanuel martyrs, we must continue their struggle for transformative action. Continue reading
  6. A Cruel New Bill Is About to Become Law in Mississippi Volunteers serve breakfast at the Seashore Mission, which offers services to the homeless and those in need on Jan. 3, 2016 in Biloxi, Mississippi. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2017 … This post originally appeared at The Nation. Had the Ryan-Trump health care bill been signed into law, 24 million people could have lost their health care — and Donald Trump would have received a $2.18 million annual tax cut. Fortunately, Continue reading
  7. Mitt Romney Has a Koch Problem
    1 Jan 2015 … Why didn't Romney get an invite to the Koch brothers' donor retreat this weekend? Continue reading
  8. In a Looking-Glass World: Our Work Is Just Beginning
    11 Nov 2020 … After four years of running in place, November 2016 seems like a lifetime ago. The United States of 2020 is a very different place, at once more devastated and more hopeful than at least we were a mere four years Continue reading
  9. Cold Anger in Restless Times: The Growing Movement for Racial and Social Justice
    12 Dec 2014 … Activists are transforming outrage into community organizing projects, voter registration drives and mass protest campaigns. Continue reading
  10. The Minimum Wage For Tipped Workers Hasn’t Increased Since the Fall of the Soviet Union In this June 2, 2014 photo, Wendy Harrison, a waitress at the icon Grill in Seattle, carries food to a table as she works during lunchtime. An Associated Press comparison of the cost of living at several other major U.S. cities found that a $15 minimum wage, like Seattle adopted this week, will make a difference, but won’t buy a lavish lifestyle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
    7 Jul 2014 … A new study debunks some of the most common myths about America's tipped workforce. Continue reading