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South Carolina Dollar General workers strike over wage theft and dangerous working conditions

Alexandra Martinez
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California Burger King franchise ordered to pay workers $2.2 million in stolen wages

Alexandra Martinez
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New labor protections for migrant workers ‘a movement win’ 

Tina Vásquez
color photograph of a masked person standing next to a cardboard cutout of a worker, with a sign in the background that reads

The South has a new union—and workers have Black women to thank

Tina Vásquez
The South has a new union—and workers have Black women to thank

The lasting legacy of Boston’s busing crisis

Kio Herrera
color photograph of two young girls crossing the road to get to their bus. They are dressed casually and each have a backpack

How activists are fighting food apartheid in Indianapolis

Frances Nguyen
color photograph of a Black woman with short tight curls down to her shoulders wearing a black cloth face mask, a black shirt

Universal basic income eases caregiving after incarceration

Makaelah Walters
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‘This is not charity’: A predominantly white congregation attempts reparations

Frances Nguyen
color photograph of an outdoor protest where a diverse crowd holds signs calling for reparations

The adoption and foster care systems demonize poverty

Tina Vásquez
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A resurging union movement must reckon with anti-Blackness

Brenton Zola
a color photograph of Chris Smalls, a black man with a short-trimmed beard and mustache, wearing an Amazon union shirt and ho

Brooklyn housing advocates sustain models of care beyond displacement

Frances Nguyen
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What will it take to meet the challenge of houselessness in Los Angeles?

Frances Nguyen
a Black person in a winter coat rides a bicycle past a homeless encampment