3 GOP States Join Paid Sick Leave Movement

New Abortion-Rights Measures in 7 States Could Trigger Legal ...

Widespread support for abortion rights continued to defy partisan labels in the election, but several of the ballot measures that voters ...

Michigan minimum wage will increase, despite Republican ruse

In 2018, Michigan Republican lawmakers stuck it to low-wage workers in a particularly underhanded way. A court ruling will change that.

Transgender-rights advocates say the election of Trump and his ...

Election victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread backlash ...

Historical Background and Development of Social Security

All peoples throughout all of human history have faced the uncertainties brought on by unemployment, illness, disability, death and old age.

Trump health secretary choice is 'courting catastrophe', says rights ...

Donald Trump nominated Robert F Kennedy, Jr to lead the Health and Human Services department. · Trump's nomination of RFK Jr as US secretary of ...

Michigan Supreme Court restores minimum wage and sick leave ...

... paid sick leave laws, a victory for low-wage workers. In a 4-3 decision, the court said Republican lawmakers violated the state Constitution.

HISTORIC ELECTION: Voters Speak, Send Resounding Victory for ...

Unprecedented Year of Wins Continues With Paid Sick Days Sweep in Massachusetts; Montclair and Trenton, New Jersey; Oakland, CA.

election of 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Taft ...

The 1912 presidential election offered the nation not two but four candidates with competing visions for addressing the nation's growing problems. Each ...

Sixteen Thirty Fund saw spending, fundraising dip ahead of 2024

Sixteen Thirty Fund, one of the left's largest hubs of dark money, saw a slowdown in both fundraising and spending last year.

Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures in 2024

The ACLU is tracking 558anti-LGBTQ bills in the U.S..

Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United States

American voters are less ideologically polarized than they think they are, and that misperception is greatest for the most politically engaged people.

Readying for Republican Rule - KFF Health News

With Republicans now set to control the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives starting in January, their health agenda remains ...

A Brief History: The U.S. Department of Labor

The organic act establishing the Department of Labor was signed on March 4, 1913, by a reluctant President William Howard Taft.

Executive Order 13224 - United States Department of State

Executive Order 13224 gives the US Government a powerful tool to impede terrorist funding and is part of our national commitment to lead the international ...

About | Representative Ocasio-Cortez

First Political Campaign ... During the 2016 presidential election, Alexandria worked as a volunteer organizer for Bernie Sanders in the South Bronx, expanding ...

What RFK Jr could do on US vaccines, fluoride and drugs - BBC

President-elect Donald Trump has announced he wants to appoint vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr as the head of the US Department of ...

The Rise of Political Violence in the United States

Angry supporters of then-president Donald Trump, believing false accusations that Dominion had switched votes in favor of Joe Biden, published Coomer's home ...

Minimum wage, paid sick leave bills get final passage

Ursula Averill from Lansing, chants as she protests the lame duck legislation inside the state. LANSING – Amid a day of protests by hundreds of ...

Commentary: A Reflection on the Election, and What Comes Next

The last week has been a blur, and I've gone through most of my stages of grief in this situation – muting, blocking, unfollowing, ...

Trump Judge Blocks Overtime Pay For 4 Million Workers

The overtime rule is one of the most far-reaching economic reforms that President Joe Biden has fought for.