In 2023, Los Angeles Was on Strike
This story is a collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Magnum Foundation. We asked photographers to show us the paradox of today’s labor movement. Even as the popularity of unions has grown over the last decade, actual membership has continued to decline. Can new enthusiasm revitalize American labor? Read about this unique moment…
Bad Jobs Often Follow a Prison Sentence. They Want to Change That.
This story is a collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Magnum Foundation. We asked photographers to show us the paradox of today’s labor movement. Even as the popularity of unions has grown over the last decade, actual membership has continued to decline. Can new enthusiasm revitalize American labor? Read about this unique moment…
U.S. Senate sends Biden giant spending package hours before midnight deadline
President Joe Biden is expected to sign into law a package of six bills that cleared Congress on Friday, March 8, 2024. The bills are just part of the equation Congress must solve before the next funding deadline of March 22, when another six bills, which are much more challenging and include a higher price…
Georgia House Minority Leader announces he won’t stand for reelection
House Minority Leader James Beverly announced his retirement on March 8, the final day of qualifying for the 2024 election that will include his Macon district among the 236 legislative seats. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder (file) House Minority Leader James Beverly, a steady voice for Democrats at the GOP-controlled state Capitol, has announced that he will…
Alabama’s Britt blasts Biden on economy, immigration in GOP State of the Union reply
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (Screenshot from C-SPAN) First-term U.S. Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night, and laid blame on Biden for a host of national…
Biden warns ‘freedom and democracy are under attack’ in fierce State of the Union address
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Rome calls out as U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on March 07, 2024 in Washington, DC. This is Biden’s last State of the Union address before the general election…