Two Texas politicians this week told the people they govern just how little they care about us, even during a horrendous climate emergency. The first example was in the obscene tweet from Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, to his constituents: Far more...
This past week we’ve watched as large parts of the nation ground to a halt because of temperatures forty degrees below average and snow and ice not seen in decades. Texas has been particularly hard hit. The temperature went down to single digits. The storm and surge...
On Tuesday, February 16, a Fred Meyer grocery store in Portland, Oregon threw out a large amount of perishable food that could not be refrigerated properly due to a power outage caused by a winter storm. Local residents, seeing the food waste, gathered at the...
Where does this practice come from that allows a customer to decide on the spot what a worker should be paid, and allows the employer to pay as little as $2.13 per hour? The United States is one of the only countries in the world that allows businesses to put the...
During the Industrial Revolution, from around 1821 onward, the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts recruited women from the surrounding rural countryside. The mill workers were mostly young women aged 15-30, who lived together in company boardinghouses. To the mill...
