America is not based on hard work. Get it out of your head that this society is set up to be fair. Fair would be everyone with a roof over their head.
LEE CAMP: 28 Million Evictions Loom as Houses Sit Empty
Category: Labor
COVID-19: New Government Loan ‘Could Accelerate Demise of US Postal Service’
The U.S. Treasury Secretary and U.S. Postal Service leaders appear to be exploiting the pandemic to hold the Postal Service to unreasonable loan terms without even consulting Congress.
COVID-19: Rot Exposed By Pandemic Augurs a Future of Fear
Vijay Prashad raises deep questions about the exhaustion of the global capitalist system in a time of great human suffering.
COVID-19: Low-Wage Essential Workers Get Less Protection & Less Information
Jasmine Kerrissey and Clare Hammonds report on their research, which provides some of the first data on the safety of essential workers during the pandemic.
COVID-19: Analysis Finds Nearly 1/3 of Owed Jobless Benefits Not Yet Paid
There is a $67 billion gap that Bloomberg news found between the sum of benefits paid out by the Treasury Department and the amount owed to jobless Americans.
COVID-19: Essential US Workers Often Lack Sick Leave & Health Care
Once the pandemic ends, much of the American workforce will still be without basic benefits and protections taken for granted in virtually every other developed country, writes Paul F. Clark.
COVID-19: Trump Labor Department Urges Employers to Report Workers Who Stay Home Due to Virus Fears
The Labor Department says “general concern” about contracting Covid-19 is not sufficient grounds to refuse work and still receive unemployment benefits, Jake Johnson reports.
COVID-19: Propaganda & the Art of Exploiting a Pandemic
Throughout the U.S., institutions that have no real interest in public health are exploiting our sense of vulnerability to benefit their public images and their bottom lines, says Dr. Mike Pappas.
COVID-19: May Day 2020 Showed Worker Unity in the Age of Pandemic
On May Day, Americans were more aware of the plight of workers than at any time in decades, argues Peter Dreier.
COVID-19: These Migrant Workers Did Not Suddenly Fall from the Sky
A hasty show of compassion is not enough, writes Vijay Prashad. The system that keeps them barely alive must be replaced.