Labor’s Southern strategy finds a focus in Texas
Thiry-four percent of Houston's children live in poverty. Overall, 22 percent of the people live below the official poverty level, with racial minorities the hardest hit.
Altoona nurses strike to put “Patients before profits”
Hundreds of nurses, hospital workers and supporters hit the picket line in the bitter cold here, Feb. 11.
Today in black history: Andrew Johnson impeached
On Feb. 24, 1868 the House voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States.
The Congressional Budget Office minimum wage controversy
"Every time momentum builds for lifting wages, conservative ideologues say it will cost jobs. Every time they've been dead wrong."
Tennessee paper pushes Koch-connected anti-union message ahead of UAW vote
A misleading op-ed co-written by a Koch and ALEC ally, falsely claimed creating a union in a local Volkswagen plant would negatively impact the state economy and plant relations.
