By Julie Chow In a soon-to-be released report, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research states, “Paid caregivers caring for recipients of Medi-Cal fare the worst...
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson The Pentagon’s defiant pledge to stick with the Rush Limbaugh show, no matter what, bumps up against a few hard and insulting...
By Michele Reed I am an in-home care worker and vice president of a union called United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW), which is a member...
By Richard Kirsch (In the following excerpt from his new book, Fighting for Our Health, Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Richard Kirsch notes that many small business...
By Ashley McCormack One of the major focuses of this presidential election year is the economy and the ways we can create jobs. President Obama’s State...
(The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy has just released its guide for policy activists in the form of a graphic novel and anthology of...
(Note: This post first appeared on Grist.com.) By Christopher Mims Maybe you’ve heard that we’re now using more trees for toilet paper than for newsprint. (Not...
(Note: This post first appeared on Philanthropy New York’s Smart Assets blog.) By Beth Herz Leading the charge on an issue can bring an organization’s work...
(Note: Brian Beutler’s post first appeared on Talking Points Memo. Frying Pan News presents it here as a snapshot of the Congressional fight over the future...
(Note: This January 27 post by David Madland and Nick Bunker appeared on the Center for American Progress’ Action Fund blog.) The Bureau of Labor Statistics,...
By Maria Elena Durazo and Denny Zane (This feature first appeared on the Huffington Post.) While Washington, D.C. has been stuck in what amounts to a...
By Jennifer Medina (Note: This feature appeared on the New York Times Web site February 1.) CLAREMONT, Calif. — The dining hall workers had been at Pomona...
By Mark Naison (Note: Mark Naison’s post appeared earlier this month on L.A. Progressive and With a Brooklyn Accent.) In preparation for my course, The...
(A somewhat longer version of this post by Michele Simon appeared January 17 on Food Safety News. Reposted here with author’s permission.) Having saturated the rural...
(Note: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins’ post first appeared yesterday on Green for All.) America is not used to playing catch-up, not since World War II. We’ve built a...
By Jim Hightower (This feature first appeared on Truthout.org) Being at the bottom of the heap in terms of social justice confirms the reality of both...
(Editor’s Note: This post by Zak Rosen first appeared on Yes Magazine.) By Zak Rosen For nearly a decade, Gloria Lowe was a final-line inspector...
(This reposted Harold Meyerson blog originally appeared in slightly different form on American Prospect. ) In 1938, Congress passed, and FDR signed into law, the Fair...
(Editor’s note: This letter first appeared on cleanandsafeports.org, coinciding with yesterday’s protests organized by the Occupy movement at ports up and down the West Coast.) We are the front-line workers who...