Sue Sturgis: How labor unions curb racial inequality

Decade in which the income gap began to widen dramatically in the U.S., a period that also saw the beginning of a sharp decline in unionization rates: 1970s

Judith Coburn: America’s Criminal Injustice System

The Annals of a Private Eye

Baher Kamal: One Humanity? Millions of Children Tortured, Smuggled, Abused, Enslaved

69 million children under five will die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million will live in poverty, and 263 million are out of school

Benjamin Selwyn: Rethinking Recovery: Poverty Chains and Global Capitalism

Reorienting value generated within ‘global poverty chains’ is essential to improve the lives of an impoverished world labor force

Sarah Lazare: The Myth of Upward Mobility in America

Researchers find that those who start out poor are likely to remain so

Sara Goldrick-Rab: To cut costs, college students are buying less food and even going hungry

Universities and colleges must do more to identify and deal with the problem of on-campus food insecurity

Paul Street: Understanding and Defeating Working Class Nativism

If you don’t believe immigration is used by employers to depress living and working standards in the U.S., then take a job in any U.S. factory that has a significant number of unpleasant low-skill tasks

T.J. Coles: Why The Poor Stay Poor

The devastating wars raging across the Middle East can be explained in large part by America’s commitment to a doctrine of global militarism called “full spectrum dominance

Sam Husseini: Sanders Shouldn’t be in Vermont, He Should be in Brazil

The power of the establishment rests in large part because of its global connections. But progressive forces have been reluctant to wield such power

Rajesh Makwana: No recognition of ‘One Humanity’ at the World Humanitarian Forum

The ongoing failure of UN Member States to safeguard the most vulnerable was most recently demonstrated by policymakers meeting at the World Humanitarian Summit

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