Good jobs can break the crisis-recovery cycle
The bailout after the Great Recession led to a proliferation of low-quality, gig economy jobs. To recover from COVID-19, we can’t repeat the same mistakes.
Take to the digital streets for Earth Day
If there was ever a time to come together to turn the tide on an economy that puts profits over people and the planet, it is now.
Sunshine in California Public Contracts
We're fighting to bring transparency to public contracts in California.
Worker-centered state climate policy in Illinois
Illinois is poised to pass comprehensive energy legislation in the upcoming 2021 session. Our Illinois team is organizing with environmental and labor coalitions to propose worker-centered policies that would ensure an equitable transition to 100% clean energy and transition the state's public vehicle fleets.
Legal, but despicable: Employers looking to cash in on stimulus checks
Corporate employers are pursuing nefarious tactics to cash in on the stimulus checks people receive from the federal government by docking workers’ pay.
Corporate giveaways gutted the South’s safety net, recovering from COVID-19 requires rebuilding it
Alabama gives away billions of public dollars to corporations, often with no strings attached. Our new research-action program is organizing for a better deal for Southern workers and communities.
Taking on COVID-19
A real recovery from the devastating economic and public health consequences of COVID-19 means putting people over profit, once and for all.
What the pundits are missing this Super Tuesday
The sad truth is that the punditry has all but ignored climate change and the related impacts on our economy during the primary, shirking grassroots calls for a climate debate to instead pose just a handful of insufficient, muddled climate questions.
Column: Public officials should say ‘no’ to economic incentives that don’t advance the public good
Across the United States, enormous public resources are given to manufacturing companies that often make grand promises but actually eliminate or undercut good American jobs.