JPMorgan Chase Is Funding and Profiting From Private Immigration Prisons
Leave your thoughtsOne of America’s largest banks, JPMorgan Chase, is quietly financing the immigration detention centers that have detained an average of 26,240 people…
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The Supreme Court’s Partial Reinstatement of the Muslim Ban Will Be an Implementation Nightmare, Activists Warn
Leave your thoughtsOn Monday the Supreme Court agreed to review Trump’s Muslim ban this fall, and partially reinstated the ban for residents…
Americas Biggest Corporations Are Quietly Boosting Trump’s Hate Agenda
Leave your thoughtsDonald Trump has made it clear that he intends to govern exactly as promised in his campaign, unrolling a series…
New York Car Wash Workers Push for Safer, Fairer Workplace
Leave your thoughtsDiego Hernandez, 31, remembers what his job as a carwashero was like before he and his coworkers unionized in 2012.…
Wage Theft Epidemic: Bosses Pocket 15 Percent of Workers’ Pay
Leave your thoughtsMarco Jacal and Isidro Suarez (members of Make The Road) were fed up with their employer, the owner of Veranda, an…
‘When Workers Work Sick, It’s Unhealthy for All of Us’: New York’s Battle for Paid Sick Leave
Leave your thoughtsAt 3am on a November day last year, Eudocio Alvarado (a member of Make The Road New York), a 58-year-old…
Finally, CT to Become First State With Paid Sick Leave Legislation; Now What About the Rest of the Country?
Leave your thoughtsAs progressives across the country struggle to beat back a wave of right-wing statewide legislation, their Connecticut counterparts are poised…