Last October, after months of hard work, we announced that we were forming a union with the Teamsters. It was exhilarating ...

This week, the D.C. Council voted to pause a wage increase related to Initiative 82, the 2022 ballot measure that ...

But Congress has underfunded transit for years. And this is particularly true when it comes to operations funds — which are ...

Flequer Vera, co-founder of the Sustainergy worker co-op, knows first-hand about exploitation in the American workplace.

Uber in Houston offered freedom – flexible hours, quick cash, and time to care for his young son. But that promise faded fast ...

Today, Black employees make up 18.7 percent of the federal workforce. This is no accident — it reflects decades of civil ...

Last year I was vacationing with some friends when we flagged a cab to our hotel. I was annoyed that the meter seemed to be running fast — $32 to travel three miles seemed excessive, but I handed my ...

The Democratic primary debates have officially begun. And as the candidates shared a stage for the first time, it was clear that serious contenders needed to not only acknowledge our country’s extreme ...

Men dominate the top of the economic summit while women are saddled with higher levels of debt, poverty, and unpaid care work. The global trend towards extreme wealth and income concentration has ...

The Institute for Policy Studies joins our allies in the labor movement, the poor people’s movement, and other justice movements in mourning the loss of the great labor leader Rich Trumka. Long before ...

Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes. Including the biggest personal fortune of them all, the ...