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Unions offer help in Hurricane Ian Florida disaster

September 29, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

Scientists say global warming made the storm worse.

Loggers, truckers, and sawmill workers hit lumber giant Weyerhaeuser

September 29, 2022 By Tim Wheeler

First walkout to hit the lumber giant in 36 years.

Thanks to public programs, 20 million fewer Americans were poor in 2021

September 28, 2022 By Shailly Gupta Barnes

If poor people vote in the midterms like they did in 2020, we could make another leap towards ending the madness of widespread poverty in the midst of plenty.

Press coverage of declining U.S. life expectancy evades the truth about class

September 28, 2022 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

COVID and racism combine to drag down the number of years Americans live, but what about economic class?

Kaiser mental health clinicians reject Kaiser offer that wouldn’t increase staffing

September 28, 2022 By Marilyn Bechtel

The therapists are now in the seventh week of an open-ended strike.