Category: human rights

From today’s Denver Post: Lulu Guerrero wakes up at her home in Wiggins, sometimes as early as 3 a.m., to get out to the farm fields that spread across Weld…

From today’s New York Times: Laura Halvorson was ready to vote. On Thursday afternoon, she sat in front of a ballot screen at the Igo Library in San Antonio, after…

From today’s New York Times: When the ax came down at Twitter on Friday, it did not fall smoothly. The first sign that some of the company’s 7,500 employees had been laid…

From toda’s NBC News Dallas: Transgender people may face barriers to voting in dozens of states because of stricter voter ID laws and a simmering culture war, NBC News report. Voter identification laws…

From today’s NPR News: A federal judge Friday refused to bar a group from monitoring outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona’s largest county where watchers have shown up armed and in…

From today’s Sacramento Bee: California would become the first state to establish a fast food council charged with setting pay and workplace standards for the entire industry under a bill…

From today’s Washington Post: A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked enforcement of two Biden administration directives protecting LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces from discrimination, ruling in favor of…

From today’s Seattle Times: A labor contractor based in Adams County denied 165 farm laborers more than $83,000 collectively in overtime pay for cleaning the Gorge Amphitheatre, according to a…

From today’s Detroit News: A ballot committee seeking to enshrine the right to abortion in the Michigan Constitution turned in 753,759 signatures Monday, a record amount that exceeds the state-mandated signature…

From today’s Forbes Magazine: The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case (Dobbs). If you’re not familiar with that case’s name, you’re probably familiar with the…