Trump Halts New Green Cards, but Backs Off Ban for Migrant Workers
From today’s New York Times: After pledging on Twitter to end immigration during the pandemic, President Trump moved to block new green cards but stopped short of ending all work…
Coronavirus Will Supercharge Election-Year Lawsuits Over Voting Rights
From today’s NPR News Online: Election-year legal battles over voting procedures are nothing new. But their scope and intensity are growing this year amid deep partisan polarization and the logistical…
How the Coronavirus Could Create a New Working Class
From today’s Atlantic Online: Late last month, a photo circulated of delivery drivers crowding around Carbone, a Michelin-starred Greenwich Village restaurant, waiting to pick up $32 rigatoni and bring it…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants a bill of rights for essential workers
From today’s Boston.com: Elizabeth Warren says the next coronavirus relief package should “put all workers front and center.” But the Massachusetts senator is also proposing a slate of new protections…
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Could the Pandemic Wind Up Fixing What’s Broken About Work in America?
From today’s New York Times: Crises like pandemics, economic collapses and world wars have, at times throughout history, ended up reordering societies — shrinking the gap between the rich and…
Democrats must make voting reform nonnegotiable for the next stimulus bill
From today’s Vox News Online: The political climate in the US is tumultuous. The Covid-19 pandemic hangs over everything even as a dozen other issues — an oil crisis, a…
Grocery workers are beginning to die of coronavirus
From today’s Washington Post: Major supermarket chains are beginning to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths, leading to store closures and increasing anxiety among grocery workers as the pandemic intensifies…
Siding with GOP legislature, Wisconsin GOP Supreme Court puts voters in harms way during COVID-19 pandemic
From today’s New York Times: The Summer Olympics are delayed. March Madness was canceled. Even the pope celebrated Palm Sunday Mass before a nearly empty St. Peter’s Basilica. But in…
Freelancers can get unemployment pay for jobs lost to coronavirus
From today’s Los Angeles Times: New coronavirus laws provide a litany of benefits to the self-employed, freelancers and workers in the gig economy. But what are the benefits, and how…
A 3,000% jump in jobless claims has devastated the US job market
From today’s CNN Online: The last three weeks have marked one of the most devastating periods in history for the American job market, as first-time claims for unemployment benefits have…