Stressed, Struggling, and Suicidal: America’s Farmers Are Begging for Mental Health Services
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Farmers’ advocacy groups called on Congress Monday to reauthorize, “with adequate funding,” a program that provides mental health services to distressed American farmers and their families. “Despite the growing need,” notes a letter to House and Senate agricultural committees signed by 36 rural and farming…
Teachers Have Been Getting Screwed in Oklahoma for Generations
Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 1990, when he was nine years old, Heath Miller protested alongside his parents at the Oklahoma Capitol building. His mother was a special education teacher in the state, and his father worked for the Oklahoma Education Association, the statewide teachers union. Thousands…
Thousands of Teachers in Red States Are Leading the Charge for Better School Funding
Teachers picket around the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City on Monday. Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday morning, tens of thousands of Oklahoma teachers stormed the state Capitol to urge lawmakers to approve better pay and more funding for their classrooms. At the same time, more than 800 miles away, a similar…
Here’s What Donald Trump Could Do If He Really Wants to Stop Amazon’s Abuses
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump ramped up his attacks against Amazon on Thursday, tweeting that he has long had “concerns” about the online retailer, even before the election. His apparent beef is that Amazon does not pay enough taxes, (supposedly) uses the US Postal Service at the nation’s expense, and drives other…
50 Years After Their Historic Strike, Memphis Sanitation Workers Are Still Fighting
Bishop Julian Smith (left) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (right) flank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis on March 28, 1968.Jack Thornell/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. February 1, 1968, was a dreary day in Memphis, Tennessee. As a storm rolled over the city, blanketing…
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The story of Wawarsing, New York, sounds a lot like the stories of small towns across the United States. Once a proud manufacturing hub known for producing high-quality knives in the Hudson Valley, its 150-year-old industry withered as companies were bought and sold, then squeezed for maximum profit until they packed up and moved…