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A Death Sentence for Meatpackers

Meatpackers are contracting COVID-19 and dying. Trump is requiring them to work — and shielding their employers from liability.

Our national security depends on those workers who feed us. They deserve a living wage and health care.

We live in a nation where food is plentiful but millions of children experience hunger and food insecurity.

As a kid, food stamps helped me eat, study, and succeed as an adult. Americans today deserve the same investment.

Tens of millions of Americans use CBD products. Most don’t realize it’s entirely unregulated.

The EPA wants to ban research that doesn’t violate the privacy of its subjects. That means less science — and fewer rules for polluters.

40 percent of Americans can’t afford a $400 emergency — and more emergencies are coming.

As hundreds of Wisconsin dairy farms go under, the White House is telling them to clear out for the big guys.

Corporate takeovers and consolidations aren’t just bad morals, but bad business too.

Plutocracy means spending millions to harass hungry poor families who have a dime more than Trump thinks they should have.