legislation
Consumers should ask: are your medical records safe?
August 11, 2016Medical data-mining companies can use and cross-check available data about doctors' patients and hospitals' admissions to uncover medical trends and exploit them for profit.
Read more
Trump’s VP pick Mike Pence addresses right-wing lobby ALEC
August 8, 2016Indiana's governor, Trump's Republican running mate, addressed - and hailed - ALEC, disregarding worker protests out front of the secretive right-wing cabal's meeting.
Read more
Chicagoans win paid sick leave law
June 23, 2016A coalition of workers' rights and progressive groups pushed the ordinance through the council, over the usual business opposition.
Read more
Coming up short on places to live
June 10, 2016What about the people who have to work 92 hours a week at minimum-wage jobs to rent a one-bedroom apt. in California? Shouldn't they have a decent place to live?
Read more
Maryland enacts tough equal pay law
May 26, 2016The new law protects poor women, women of color, and transgender individuals from discrimination.
Read more