Author: Prerna Jagadeesh

The current economic recovery we’re seeing in the U.S. isn’t just remarkably rapid — it’s especially improving the lives of working-class Americans. And it’s being…

The workers who push wheelchairs for American Airlines, United Airlines, and others are dangerously overworked, underpaid, and understaffed. They make just $7.98/hour and don’t get sick…

The biggest strike in America right now is happening at Columbia University, where 3,000 student workers are fighting for a livable wage, health benefits, and…

Google is racing to win approval for two massive new data centers—which use millions of gallons of water—in a small, drought-stricken farming town in Oregon.…

After a monthslong protest and two-week hunger strike, New York City taxi drivers won major concessions from a City Hall that had conspired with banks…

by Shanaz Uddin and Prerna Jagadeesh The month of October was an inflection point for organized labor in the United States, with workers organizing the…

The same voters that Democrats have been struggling to win over and energize in recent elections — low-income and non-college educated Americans — are among the…

Workers at Dollar General are speaking out about trying to create the retail giant’s first union. They told us how the company illegally threatened to…

The 1% cheat our country out of $200 billion in taxes each year. Republicans and their rich donors are spending millions of dollars fear-mongering and…

by Matt Bruenig, Founder of People's Policy Project The United States is the only country in the developed world that lacks a national parental leave…

We spoke to a firefighter on the front lines about how we must rethink the way we control fires as the climate crisis intensifies, and…

10,000 workers at agricultural equipment manufacturing company John Deere hit the picket lines on October 14th, triggering the largest work stoppage yet in a wave…