Workers in Alabama – and all across America – are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. It’s a vitally important choice – one that should be made without intimidation or threats by employers.
Every worker should have a free and fair choice to join a union.
when i saw my GP after being sexually assaulted, she apologized to me for having to put “high risk sexual behavior” on my chart in order to get my insurance to cover the tests i needed.
health insurance companies shouldn’t be part of our health care decisions.
The “safety net” metaphor exemplifies the Anglo focus on residualism, with welfare filling in only as last resort when market and family have failed, rather than the Nordic conception of the “welfare society” where risks are preemptively socialized
For over 10 days now, around half the residents of Jackson, Mississippi have not had running water.
And nobody is talking about it on a national scale.
I am begging the national media to please pay attention. There is a crisis happening in Jackson.
@Noahpinion Last year, counties where there was a high enough percentage of low income people simply sent food stamp cards to every parent with kids enrolled in public school (regardless of income) to make up for missing school lunch. We should do that everywhere (and make it cash)
@autisticelector @aaronnarraph i dunno, do you think that his denunciation of even the most minor response to the Assad regime's absolutely incalculable brutality is enough to go on, or...?
friday fun fact: 40% of the existing buildings in manhattan could not be built today due to downzonings over the past century.
many major NYC landmarks would literally be illegal to build today:
Watching a young woman say Dems always toss trans people under the bus the same day the Democratically controlled House signs an expanded LGBTQIA rights bill & Dems defend Rachel Levine is a perfect example of leftism vs reality on Twitter.
The Biden administration up until this point is actually doing very well and is eerily similar to what a Sanders administration would have looked like.
@nafnared2 @pinkocyclist @CritLeft @ne0liberal @JennieTetreault the syrian government is allied with Iran. the syrian government is waging a war against its own people. they have literally tortured children in syrian prisons. not sure you have a firm grasp of what's going on here, morally or literally.