Senate Republicans Block John Lewis Voting Rights Bill in Key Vote
From today’s CNN Online: Senate Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Act from advancing on Wednesday when the Senate took a procedural vote on whether to open debate on…
Workplace Strikes Surge During Pandemic, Empowering Workers
From today’s Washington Post: Factory workers, nurses and school bus drivers are among the tens of thousands of Americans who walked off jobs in October amid a surge of labor…
Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign workers
From today’s NPR News Online: Facebook is paying a $4.75 million fine and up to $9.5 million to eligible victims to resolve the Justice Department’s allegations that it discriminated against…
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As Starbucks Workers Seek a Union, Company Officials Converge on Stores
From today’s New York Times: During her decade-plus at Starbucks, Michelle Eisen says she has endured her share of workplace stress. She points to the company’s increased use of productivity…
A Surprise Billing Law May Have Unintended Effects on Health Care
From today’s NPR News Online: Patients are months away from not having to worry about most surprise medical bills — those extra costs that can amount to hundreds or thousands…
How Voting Rights Activists Navigate New Restrictions For 2022 elections
From today’s CNN Online: When activist Tammye Pettyjohn Jones knocks on voters’ doors in her rural corner of Georgia this month, she’ll have a new tool in hand: a portable…
Ohio is Part of a Shameful Trend to Erect Barriers to Voting in America
From today’s Columbus Dispatch: At the heart of our country’s political debates are questions about our values and perspectives on legislating our deeper beliefs about right and wrong, relationships and…
Unions Fighting Vax Mandates Endanger Public Health & Economic Recovery
From today’s New York Times: As New York pushes forward with some of the toughest and farthest-reaching vaccine mandates in the nation, thousands of health care workers in the state…
On National Voter Registration Day, We Must Fight Restrictions on Voting Rights
From today’s Scientific American: This week marks the 10th time that Americans have commemorated National Voter Registration Day, an occasion designed to encourage the one in four adult citizens who…
Families Harmed By SoCal Gas Methane Leak Reach $1.8 Billion Settlement
From today’s NPR News Online: Thousands of families sickened and forced from their Los Angeles homes after the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak have reached a settlement of up to…