From the immense pressure placed on workers to return to low-wage jobs to broken social safety nets that have compounded poverty, food and housing insecurity, and inadequate unemployment benefits, America’s poor and working class have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic. Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States,

As workers organize unions to improve working conditions during the pandemic, employers have engaged in retaliation, including laying offs.

In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, several school boards voted or are in the process of voting to defund school police forces.

The surge of unemployment claims during COVID-19 has created major backlogs that plague several states and prevent people from receiving money.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Seattle City Council members have launched another effort to tax Amazon and other large corporations.

National Nurses United organizers focus on personal experiences with the health care system to mobilize voters for Medicare For All in 2020 primary.

The State of Tennessee is in the midst of a health care crisis, where its residents are struggling with debt, bankruptcies, and a lack of access to health care, while suffering from some of the highest rates in the United States of preventable illnesses. 

“It’s a definitive shift in the entire landscape, not just in Chicago, but throughout the U.S., away from privatization, school closures, charter schools, and the kind of Koch Brother funding of private schools instead of public schools, a threat we’ve been fending off for the last 30 years,” said Jackson Potter, a union bargaining member and high school teacher in Chicago.

Michael Sainato reports on equal employment opportunity complaints that workers filed against Verizon alleging the company engages in racial discrimination.

Migrant workers share stories of wage theft and retaliation by employers, and how there is little-to-no enforcement of state labor protections.