Most Americans Think Teachers Deserve More Money
Some 50,000 educators marched on the Arizona State Capitol on Thursday.Jeff Brown/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week, thousands of teachers in Arizona and Colorado descended on statehouses to demand better pay and school funding. It appears many Americans agree with them—and support their efforts to shut down…
Republicans Want to Throw the Book at Colorado Teachers Getting Ready to Strike
Teachers hold placards during a rally outside the state Capitol, Monday, April 16, 2018, in Denver.David Zalubowski/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a week before thousands of Colorado teachers are expected to descend on the state capitol to rally for better pay and protest potential retirement benefit cuts, two Republican…
Kirsten Gillibrand Takes Aim at ICE After an Arrest at a New York Dairy Farm
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things have gone sour for New York’s dairy industry, the third-largest of any US state. Years of low milk prices have led to steady stream of farm closings and farmer suicides. The industry’s workforce, which includes large numbers of immigrants, faces low wages, long hours, and high…
Immigrant Detainees Claim They Were Forced to Clean Bathrooms to Pay for Their Own Toilet Paper
A protest outside Stewart Detention CenterMike Haskey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Stewart Detention Center in rural Georgia has been called “the black hole of America’s immigration system” for overusing solitary confinement, cutting corners on mental health care, and deporting asylum seekers at extraordinary rates. Now it can add one more alleged human rights…
Kentucky’s GOP Governor Says Teacher Protests Enable Child Sexual Assault
Teachers from across Kentucky gather inside the state Capitol to rally for increased funding for education on Friday. Bryan Woolston/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, just hours after protesting teachers flooded Kentucky’s capitol building to rally against a pension reform plan and call for increased school funding, the…
House Republicans Propose Strict Work Requirements for Food Stamp Recipients
jetcityimage/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican chairman of the House Agriculture Committee proposed a dramatic change in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) today that would tighten eligibility rules and require some six million “work-capable” adults to work at least 20 hours a week or attend job-training classes…