| Mar 31, 2021 | RoundupThis week, President Biden introduced a $2 trillion jobs bill and infrastructure package. The package is expected to take months to come together in Congress, but advocates are already pushing hard around one area in particular: care work. Care workers have been more...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyHey, you, get away from those polling places! We don’t want your kind here! Scram! That’s a stupid, shameful, and ultimately self-defeating political message, yet it’s being pushed as the official anti-voter electoral strategy of Republicans. Admitting that they can’t...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe Idaho legislature just cracked down on colleges teaching “social justice ideology.” They cut $409,000 from Boise State University’s budget and forced a number of “social justice”-related classes to move online and “asynchronous,” without any more live discussion....
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe pandemic has dramatically exposed the vital role that care workers play in our society. As child care centers and schools closed and nursing homes became COVID-19 hotspots, families have strained to juggle work and other responsibilities while taking care of loved...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWomen know that our progress is often characterized by two steps forward, one step back. For women of color, the obstacles are even greater. And so, as the Biden-Harris administration makes a groundbreaking effort to nominate more women of color to high-level...
