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 ...

As President Trump takes office, his Republican allies in Congress are already hard at work readying his legislative agenda. Trump campaigned on a promise to lower costs for Americans. But so far, the ...

As corporations in the United States and around the world continue to reap record profits thanks to enormous tax cuts, widespread tax avoidance schemes, and business-friendly trade and investment ...

Alejandro G. thought that driving full-time for Uber in Houston offered freedom – flexible hours, quick cash, and time to care for his young son. But that promise faded fast. “There are hours when I ...

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 ...

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

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