Nadra Nittle, Civileats.com
- Apr 1, 2020
- 6 min
Grocery Store Workers—’Heroes to the Community’ During Coronavirus—to Get Hazard Pay
Working long hours at great risk of exposure, thousands of grocery store workers are being recognized as essential with a pay raise....
John Nichols, The Nation
- Apr 1, 2020
- 5 min
‘Just Keep Up the Faith’: Workers Are Stepping Up to Beat the Coronavirus From hospital wards to bus
“Every ventilator we get off the end of our line and out of our building is saving a life,” says Trevar Smedal. He works at a GE...
Christian Davenport
- Apr 1, 2020
- 9 min
As coronavirus spreads, so do reports of companies mistreating workers From nurses to retail salespe
She could wear her protective mask while seeing her patients. Many were, after all, elderly, with respiratory problems, susceptible to...
Kristen Estell, Heartland Capital Strategies
- Apr 1, 2020
- 3 min
UFCW Negotiating Benefits for Essential Workers During Coronavirus Crisis.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union has long known how essential their members were to the economy and the country. They...
Tom Croft, Heartland Capital Strategies
- Mar 25, 2020
- 4 min
Responding to the Oncoming Glacier, Restoring a Sustainable Economy
“But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it....
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
- Mar 25, 2020
- 6 min
Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression “We are freezing the economy.”
While the White House and lawmakers haggle over the terms of an emergency economic-stabilization package, Denmark has gone big—very, very...