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Democrat Travis Terrell has had a chip on his shoulder ever since he was a senior in high school. But rather than sit around and let it fester, the candidate for Iowa's 1st Congressional District is ...
The blue door is unmarked, its glass panel stealing a glimpse into a dishevelled interior. The door is locked so I wait, surrounded by the quiet cobbled streets of old Kaimakli on a Sunday morning. A ...
Many of the unfortunate things working class people waste money on while thinking they're leveling up are poor financial ...
The new Labour government is pitching “change” to “working people” but it needs to update its idea of who these people are.
The outcome of this bill will be a net negative for everyone except the rich — and it’s time to throw Donald Trump’s populist ...
A new study reveals the ‘welfare versus work paradox’: when wages sink close to subsistence, welfare can be the rational ...
They wouldn’t be able to get coverage in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces after losing Medicaid. Premiums and out-of-pocket costs are likely to be too high for those making less than 100% to 138% ...
Medicaid improves access to care for low-wage workers who cannot survive on bare-bone benefits offered by their employers.
Economics is famous for being the dismal science. Sadly, recent work highlighting the slowdown in productivity growth stretching back to the 1950s is no exception. But I take a more cheerful view ...
Welcome to National Industrial Workers of the World Day, a celebration that highlights the struggles and triumphs of workers ...
In May 2024, six Massachusetts locations of Blue Bottle, which was founded in the Bay Area, voted to unionize as part of the ...
1 online resource (xi, 312 pages) "This moving and challenging book by Simon Charlesworth deals with the personal consequences of poverty and class and the effects of growing up as part of a poor and ...