Auto Workers Begin Voting on New Contracts. Deal or No Deal? Starving for Education in Chicago: Hunger Strikers Fight for A School About 40,000 workers…

Updates on economics of refugees, Ford buys French political wife, LAs homeless, Labor Day history, Seattle Teachers strike, and Japan's jobs ever more precarious. Response…

Spread out across the prairies of north-central Indiana are dozens of towns and small cities whose streets and industrial parks once buzzed and hummed with…

Labor Pains for 137,000: The Auto Workers Union and Detroit’s Big 3 It’s six weeks since the United Auto Workers union began hardball negotiations with…

Discriminatory housing, zoning, and other policy choices are driving the dramatic rise of racialized poverty and segregation across the United States, with the number of…

From Brazil to India and from California to Detroit, taps are running dry, as the water crisis goes global. Detroit grabbed headlines when the city…

Pauline Schneider interviews Cliff Weathers who comes to Riverkeeper after 30 years as a writer, editor and multimedia producer. He served as a deputy editor…

Austerity Rendering Detroit Unfit for Habitation A serious fire raged out control due to chronic low water pressure in Detroit, despite the majority Black city’s…

Bleeding to Debt: As With Detroit, So With Puerto Rico? Puerto Rico is in a “death spiral,” Gov. Alejandro García Padilla has declared, unable to…

There's an old saying going back to the Reagan years: “personnel is policy.” It means that the sort of advisers and staff public officials surround…

Since the crackdown on seed libraries by some U.S. states last year, organizers (including Shareable) around the country have been working to protect seed sharing. In both Minnesota and Nebraska, bills…

Elder abuse is defined [3] as "harmful acts toward an elderly adult, such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, financial exploitation, and neglect.." Financial exploitation comes from…