Jacob Horwitz / Inequality.orgMar 1, 2023
A new international campaign is targeting fashion brands that spend vast sums on stock buybacks instead of compensating workers for lost pandemic wages. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Daniel Elkind / TruthdigFeb 27, 2023
Across the country, people and families priced out of the real estate market are turning to temporary housing built to shelter traveling workers. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
Marjorie Cohn / TruthoutJun 16, 2019
The presidential hopeful takes a page from FDR's book to propose an economic bill of rights that could drastically improve Americans' lives. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJun 10, 2018
Our reader-funded project to launch coverage of this important movement has been a success. Now we need your help to keep documenting activism across the nation in this historic moment. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 29, 2018
Activists and civil rights advocates from across the nation have joined to create a new movement that is reigniting Martin Luther King's 1968 effort to fight racism, militarism and materialism. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Emily Wells / TruthdigMay 12, 2018
A movement to bring poverty to the center of the political agenda kicks off Monday, and Truthdig is launching a reader-funded drive to help the website cover the story. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 15, 2015
Wal-Mart's workers are so poor they’re skipping lunch, sharing the food of others or stealing from co-workers, some of them said as they announced a 15-day fast aimed at raising the company's wages. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigJul 26, 2014
The hit "Funny or Die" video casts Kristen Bell as a fed-up Mary Poppins, quitting her "choice" nanny position in protest of earning a minimum wage that has her living below the poverty line. But the timeless Disney character has a good idea about what will make her stay. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
BLANKNov 27, 2013
In the same election in which a socialist won a seat on the Seattle City Council, voters in the nearby city of SeaTac also approved a $15 hourly minimum wage for some workers in and around Seattle-Tacoma airport. Even if a recount reverses the result, the election seems to place the Seattle area at the vanguard of a surge of progressive political success. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 3, 2013
Fast food and retail workers are striking for the right to unionize and a living wage in seven cities: Milwaukee; Chicago; St. Louis; Kansas City, Mo.; Detroit; Flint, Mich.; and New York City. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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