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January 13, 2014
Jennifer Kirby
How Does Your State Rank on the Minimum Wage?
January 13, 2014
Nancy L. Cohen
Step Aside, New York City. Los Angeles's Populism Is for Real.
City to consider the highest minimum wage in the country
October 8, 2013
Michael Kinsley
Walmart Can Solve the Inequality Problem. It Starts With Stickers.
September 2, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Los Angeles is the Labor Movement's Great Success Story
August 22, 2013
Michael Kazin
The White Man Whose 'March on Washington' Speech You Should Remember Too
August 2, 2013
Molly Korab
Can Fast-Food Workers Raise Wages With One-Day Strikes?
June 21, 2013
Ryan Kearney
Americans Are Spending All of Their Time Sleeping
June 3, 2013
Lydia DePillis
The Guilt Index: Tag Check
Just how bad you should feel when your new shirt says “made in X”
May 30, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Peabody Energy's Coal Train Has Hauled Health-Care Benefits Away
A judge approves a whole new way to cheat U.S. workers
May 30, 2013
John B. Judis
Documented Flaws
The immigration bill's disturbing fine print
May 13, 2013
Michael Kazin
How Labor Learned to Love Immigration
May 2, 2013
T.A. Frank
How to Make Garment Factories Safer
The disaster in Bangladesh didn't have to happen. Here's what needs to happen next.
April 15, 2013
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Jonathan Cohn
The Hell of American Day Care
An investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children
Subscribers Only
March 21, 2013
Judith Shulevitz
Sympathy for the Stay-at-Home Mom
An argument about work, life, and the modern calendar
March 4, 2013
Eve Fairbanks
"You Have All the Reasons to Be Angry"
A mine massacre and the fight for South Africa's future
February 19, 2013
Alec MacGillis
The Incredible Disappearing Health Benefits
Can a coal company get away with breaking promises to workers?
February 5, 2013
Molly Redden
Unions Have High Hopes for Weed Workers
In marijuana, labor has found a growth industry. The Obama administration has other ideas.
February 1, 2013
Timothy Noah
Labor of Love
The enforced happiness of Pret A Manger
January 24, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Is Obama's Coal-Country Nemesis Hiring Again?
January 24, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Time To Bid Farewell To "Big Labor"
Unions have shrunk. The vocabulary we use to describe them should, too.

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