How a Small Liberal Arts College in Iowa Could Hand Trump a Big Win Against Labor Rights
Grinnell students protest the administration’s response to unionizing efforts.Paul Chan Htoo Sang Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While the majority of America’s undergraduates are squirreled away in campus libraries preparing for finals, student workers at Grinnell College are preparing for a union showdown that could have serious implications for the future…
Former Facebook Manager: Being Black at Facebook Is Bad, But Being Black in Silicon Valley Is Worse
Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just before Mark Luckie quit his job as a manager at Facebook, he sent out a departing internal memo November 8 calling out his former employer for having a “black people problem”—and then, last week, shared that note with the public on his…
This Researcher Rode 5,000 Miles With Uber to Understand the Gig Economy
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re a frequent passenger of Lyft or Uber, there’s a good chance you’ve met your fair share of drivers. But probably not as many as Alex Rosenblat, an ethnographer and researcher at Data & Society, a nonprofit in New…
Your Halloween Candy’s Hidden Ingredient: Child Slave Labor
FatCamera/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re buying last-minute Halloween candy, you might want to know about a recent ruling by the US Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit in a long-running lawsuit against Nestlé and agribusiness giant Cargill that alleges the companies aided and abetted child slavery on cocoa…
Missouri Voters Deal Major Blow to GOP Union-Busting Efforts
An anti-Proposition A rally in Kansas City, Mo., in July. Charlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Missouri voters sent a message to the Republican-controlled state legislature: The state must protect unions. It is the first state since 2012 to overturn a right-to-work law that aimed to weaken…
United States Gets an F for Failing to Help Its Neediest
Jerry Kinchen, 61, accepts food from a religious mission pantry in Holiday, Florida, in August 2009.Kainaz Amaria/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A blistering report delivered to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council Friday morning slammed America’s record on poverty, two days after ambassador Nikki Haley announced that the United States…