coronavirus
Anti-hunger groups applaud massive SNAP food stamp benefit increase
August 17, 2021Biden administration announces the largest boost to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits ever.
Read moreElection Day 2020 should have mimicked 1932. What went wrong?
August 13, 2021While a broad coalition beat back GOP control in several branches of government last year, progressive majorities don’t match the ones we had in 1932.
Read moreCoronavirus upends world of work, opens workers’ eyes to unions
August 13, 2021Hundreds of thousands of workers had their eyes opened to the need for protections unions offer
Read moreAustralia sends military to quarantine working-class communities, leaves wealthy areas untouched
August 13, 2021In working-class areas and communities of color, authorities are using military might to look like they're controlling the pandemic. Meanwhile, rich neighborhoods with COVID cases go unpoliced.
Read more‘People’s Vaccine’ needed to break monopoly profiteering and end vaccine apartheid
August 12, 2021Vaccinating the world’s population faces two big obstacles: right-wing sabotage and extreme profiteering by pharmaceutical companies.
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