NewsLabor Newspaper Layoffs Aren’t Color-Blind Massive job loses over the last couple of years have fallen particularly hard on people of color, hitting groups already plagued by high unemployment. It turns out this trend applies to the news business too. As daily newspapers continue to hemorrhage staff, these groups are losing out at a higher rate, according to the annual newsroom census by the American Society of Newspapers and Editors. Nicholas KusnetzApril 15, 2010
InvestigationLabor, Politics Timed Out on Welfare, Many Sell Food Stamps In Connecticut, which has the shortest welfare time limit in the country, desperate families are selling food stamps for pennies on the dollar to cover basic necessities. Seth Freed WesslerColorlines.comFebruary 16, 2010
AnalysisLabor 2009: Worst year for journalists I shouldn’t state this publicly, but I’m beginning to feel immune to stories about journalists’ deaths… Chantal FloresFebruary 5, 2010
InvestigationBusiness, Labor Making Ends Meet in the Great Recession The story of Tisha, an unemployed mother of three in Connecticut, who’s facing a social safety net shredded further by the economic crisis. Seth Freed WesslerLink TVFebruary 3, 2010
InvestigationBusiness, Labor Can Labor Revive the American Dream? From Wal-Mart to Home Depot to the Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby has declared war on the Employee Free Choice Act — to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. Esther KaplanThe NationJanuary 7, 2009
InvestigationLabor, Politics The American Dream Comic and social critic Harmon Leon embarks on a gonzo journey across America and inside a Fort Lauderdale weapons convention, where he finds that even a self-declared revolutionary with a Cayman Island PO Box is treated as a potential customer. Harmon LeonNation BooksSeptember 22, 2008
InvestigationBusiness, Labor Meet the Wealth Gap The super rich fund think tanks and lobbyists to increase the distance between them and everyone else – while those at the bottom face the economic draft. Gabriel ThompsonThe NationJune 30, 2008
InvestigationLabor, World Dollar-Driven Recruiting To get enough recruits to go fight in Iraq, the Department of Defense has lowered recruiting standards – and now it’s throwing money at the problem. Allen McDuffeeThe NationMay 16, 2008
InvestigationBusiness, Health, Labor The High Price of Beauty Cheap beauty products are making Americans sick. How an epidemic is plaguing poorly paid workers at nail salons – while the FDA does nothing. Virginia Sole-SmithThe NationOctober 8, 2007
InvestigationHealth, Immigration, Labor Hard Labor The organic food industry, which prides itself on a gentler approach to land and the people who work it, is little different in its shabby treatment of a low-paid immigrant workforce. Felicia MelloThe NationAugust 24, 2006