Chicken Farmers Thought Trump Was Going to Help Them. Then His Administration Did the Opposite.
Free range chickens on a farm in Cromwell, Oklahoma. Preston Keres/ZUMA This story was originally published by ProPublica. By late 2016, many of the nation’s 25,000 chicken farmers said they had grown bitterly frustrated by the administration of President Barack Obama. Under Obama, top officials had promised to help farmers by tightening regulations on meat…
US Women’s National Soccer Team Sues Over Pay Discrimination
Matthew Visinsky/Icon Sportswire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Members of the US women’s national soccer team Friday sued the US Soccer Federation, alleging that the sport’s governing body engaged in “intentional gender discrimination” by failing to provide wages and resources comparable to the far less successful men’s team. “Despite the…
Oakland Teachers Reach Tentative Deal to End Strike
Educators, students and supporters rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California during a seven-day teachers strike. Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, after a week of protest, the Oakland teachers’ union has announced a tentative agreement with the Oakland Unified School District to end the city’s longest such…
Oakland Teachers Are Still on Strike. What Are Parents Doing With Their Kids?
Magdaline Armstrong (right), a first-grade teacher, and her eight-year-old daughter, Nilaya, eight, picket outside Futures Elementary School.Rosa Furneaux/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, before thousands of Oakland teachers went on strike to call for more pay and smaller class sizes, teachers’ union president Keith Brown asked parents…
This Is What It Looks Like When Teachers Organize
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than 3,000 teachers in Oakland stood on picket lines for a second straight day Friday to demand better pay, smaller class sizes, and more resources for their district’s beleaguered schools. On Thursday, I joined my colleague Edwin Rios as he reported on the first…
Oakland Teachers Are Striking for More Pay, Smaller Classes, and an End to School Closures Like This One
Rosa Furneaux/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday morning, on the first day of Oakland’s teacher strike, a dozen or so teachers from Roots International Academy gathered around a branch-and-grass mandala in front of their school in East Oakland. Bundled up in school jackets, puffy coats, and gloves,…