What if Your Ability to Stay in This Country Depended on Your Employer? What if Your Ability to Stay in This Country Depended on Your Employer?
After losing her seasonal position, guestworker Maria Guzman decided to stand up to her former employer.
Jun 12, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Why Seattle’s Minimum-Wage Hike Is Good for Business and the Economy Why Seattle’s Minimum-Wage Hike Is Good for Business and the Economy
Should America be looking to Seattle for solutions to its broken economic system?
Jun 9, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Temp Nation: How Corporations Are Evading Accountability, at Workers’ Expense Temp Nation: How Corporations Are Evading Accountability, at Workers’ Expense
Fixing the regulatory regime for outsourcing requires both new modes enforcement and reforms that target corporations’ systematic evasion tactics.
Jun 6, 2014 / Michelle Chen
This Simple Fix Could Lift Hundreds of Thousands of Working Women Out of Poverty This Simple Fix Could Lift Hundreds of Thousands of Working Women Out of Poverty
How can we help to make sure that Walmart’s employees can both financially support their children and tuck them in at night?
Jun 4, 2014 / Michelle Chen
$15! A Great Big Wage Hike in Seattle, a Great Big Movement Nationally $15! A Great Big Wage Hike in Seattle, a Great Big Movement Nationally
As a major city opts for a minimum wage that’s double the federal rate, what seemed an improbable goal gets very real.
Jun 2, 2014 / John Nichols
A Minimum Wage for Writers? ‘The Nation’ (Almost) Proposed It In 1912. A Minimum Wage for Writers? ‘The Nation’ (Almost) Proposed It In 1912.
There is no avoiding the inherently alienating consequences of trying to earn a living through the production of words.
May 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Single Moms Take Note: California Considers Raising the Minimum Wage to $13 Single Moms Take Note: California Considers Raising the Minimum Wage to $13
A new study says the change could save lives and improve health statewide—good news for the 40 percent of poor households led by single women.
May 23, 2014 / Dani McClain
Reports of Worker Abuse Continue at NYU’s Newly Completed Abu Dhabi Campus Reports of Worker Abuse Continue at NYU’s Newly Completed Abu Dhabi Campus
To build the university where Bill Clinton will speak this week, laborers are paid less than what was contracted, are refused their own passports and bank cards and sleep a dozen t...
May 20, 2014 / StudentNation / Helen Holmes, Ari Lipsitz, and StudentNation
Turkey’s Deadly Mining Disaster Reveals Just How Little Was Done to Prevent It Turkey’s Deadly Mining Disaster Reveals Just How Little Was Done to Prevent It
Will the death of over 300 miners spark a revolution against Prime Minister Erdogan’s government?
May 19, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Impossible Choices: Fast-Food Workers Explain Why They’re Striking Impossible Choices: Fast-Food Workers Explain Why They’re Striking
The campaign for higher wages in the fast food industry goes global.
May 15, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter