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Ralph Nader: Trump’s Anti-Consumer Agenda Hurts His Voters

October 24, 2017 Editor

From today’s New York Times “Opinion” Section by Ralph Nader; As a candidate, Donald Trump promised regular people, “I will be your voice,” and attacked the drug industry for “getting…

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Cordray Gives No Signal of Departure Plans as CFPB Finalizes Payday Rule

October 20, 2017 Editor

From law.com Oct. 5, 20 by C. Ryan Barber: As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved Thursday to impose tighter restrictions on the payday lending industry, one question still looms…

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Actresses—and Millions More Workers—Have No Federal Sexual Harassment Protections

October 19, 2017 Editor

From today’s Nation by Bryce Covert: After the New York Times dropped its bombshell investigation into decades of sexual harassment perpetrated by film producer Harvey Weinstein, and the New Yorker…

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In the Fight Against Poverty, Work Is Our Most Powerful Weapon

October 16, 2017 Editor

From today’s Harvard Business Review by Leila Janah: Fourteen years ago, I left suburban Los Angeles to teach English in rural Ghana. I’d expected, like so many young people with…

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American households finally earn more than they did in 1999, but poverty and inequality are on the rise

September 12, 2017 Editor

From today’s Los Angeles Times “Business” section by Don Lee: After a long period of plodding economic growth, significant earnings gains over the past two years have finally enabled the…

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Congress Must Act on DACA: The Dreamers Need a Vote, Not Talk

September 6, 2017 Editor

From today’s New York Times by David Leonhardt: Paul Ryan offered some warm words about Dreamers. Marco Rubio went further, distancing himself from President Trump’s new immigration policy by tweeting…

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Workplace Culture: In Silicon Valley, Working Nine to Five Is for Losers

August 31, 2017 Editor

From today’s New York Times by Dan Lyons: Silicon Valley prides itself on “thinking different.” So maybe it makes sense that just as a lot of industries have begun paying…

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For workers, voters, and consumers: SB384 to extend last call to 4am in CA

August 30, 2017 Editor

From today’s Los Angeles Times Editorial Board: Last call in California is 2 a.m. That’s when bars, restaurants, nightclubs and any other businesses licensed for on-site liquor sales are legally…

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Racism at Work in America: Unemployment in Black and White

August 28, 2017 Editor

From today’s New York Times Editorial Board: The recent finding by The New York Times that black students are still vastly underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities is…

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Head of AFL-CIO explains, “Why I Quit Trump’s Business Council”

August 24, 2017 Editor

From the New York Times “Opinion” Section, August 16, 2017 by Richard Trumka: On Tuesday, President Trump stood in the lobby of his tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and…