Madysen Luebke Factually! with Adam Conover When we talk about racism in America, we tend to focus on the harm inflicted upon people of color, while rarely focusing on the ways that white people indirectly benefit from a racist culture. Author Tracie McMillan explores this concept of The White Bonus in her latest book, exploring the tangible … Read more
Author and journalist, Tracie McMillan joins Emily to discuss her new book, The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America. Raised in rural Michigan, Detroit- and Brooklyn-based writer Tracie McMillan has written for publications including the New York Times; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times; Mother Jones; Harper’s Magazine; Slate; and … Read more
Musicians Take on SXSW Luke Ottenhof, March 4, 2024An upstart performer group is joining the fight to get the famous Austin festival to pay its fair share. ‘I’m Not Gonna Let Up Until We See Changes’ Jesse Baum, March 14, 2024Health care exchange workers say the Biden administration should force their employer to provide good … Read more
From the review: “A penetrating look at the material advantages of racial privilege….[and] a well-researched, disquieting examination of inequality.”
Nonunion restaurants along the Vegas strip are fueling a campaign to organize them. Gabriel Thompson, February 16, 2024Organized labor fears a rising nonunion workforce could pull restaurant jobs down from the middle class. New Orleans Nurses Fight for a New Union as Hospitals Merge and Revenues Soar Jesse Baum, February 9, 2024Concerns over working conditions … Read more
Caltech’s Postdocs and Grad Workers Seek Union Recognition Jessica Goodheart, December 26, 2023Science graduate student assistants and researchers are at the forefront of recent unionization efforts in academia. How Amazon Workers Got a Raise Before a Union Christopher Salazar, December 22, 2023Two Christmas rushes ago, workers at this Amazon air cargo hub started to win … Read more
Is Affordable Housing a New Worker’s Right? Venessa Wong, November 21, 2023With housing costs out of reach, workers from Brooklyn to Minneapolis to Los Angeles are demanding solutions. Bay Area Hospice Workers Vote to Unionize Gabriel Thompson, November 3, 2023The Hospice East Bay vote shows growing unionization at end-of-life care.
As Hospices Privatize, Bay Area Workers Want a Union Gabriel Thompson, October 31, 2023They say “metrics for productivity” are driving care for the dying. Nov. 3 union vote marks growing labor organizing as end-of-life care becomes a for-profit industry. Why Is the Biden Administration Giving a Multibillion-Dollar Contract to a Low-Road Employer? Jesse Baum, October … Read more
Union-Busting With a Smile: Is Trader Joe’s the Next Starbucks? Gabriel Thompson, September 29, 2023The friendly grocer’s staff are increasingly going union — and say the company is hostile to their efforts.
How Workers Across a Polarized U.S. Are Challenging Economic Inequality This two-year series explores how American workers across political, geographic and racial lines are challenging an increasingly unequal economic status quo. Our reporters take readers inside some of the most innovative, high-stakes organizing campaigns in the country, from the Deep South to the industrial heartland to the urban … Read more
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