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100 Days into the 115th Congress, We Examine How They've Spent Their Time
Gage Skidmore
In his first address to the newly sworn in 115th Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) posed the following question: “Find one person [in this chamber] who doesn’t want to help the unemployed, or care for the sick, or educate the young…who here among us does not want to open wide the door to opportunity?”
Now as we're 100 days and counting into the 115th Congress, their actions give us the answer.
Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are certainly trying to “open wide the doors of opportunity,” but only if you are a CEO who profits by cutting corners on workers' health and safety, or siphoning off millions from their retirement accounts.
For people who are unemployed, both Ryan and McConnell supported a budget plan that would drastically cut back on job training, Meals on Wheels and education funding for children with disabilities.
For the sick, the Republican leaders tried to gut Obamacare and replace it with a plan that would deprive 24 million Americans of health insurance, tax working peoples’ benefits,...
The adult children of the slain San Bernardino school teacher Karen Smith said if their mother was alive, she would be heartbroken over the shooting at North Park Elementary School.
Register for Webinar on Union Support for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Workers
Labor Project for Working Families
It isn't just the rights of union members that increasingly are under attack in the current political environment; we are also seeing a growing number of attacks on the rights of women in the workplace. It's critical that pregnant and breastfeeding workers are included in our efforts to fight corporate greed and the legislative attacks that come along with that greed. During and after pregnancy, working women face increased job security and unfair treatment. Unions are in a good position to fight back in solidarity with those workers.
Join us Tuesday, April 18, for a live webinar from 2-3 p.m. ET, as the Labor Project for Working Families, the Center for Worklife Law and the AFL-CIO host a workshop on the role that unions can play in promoting protections for pregnant and breastfeeding workers. The presenters include: Carol Joyner, the director of the Labor Project for Working Families; Tiffany Beroid, a United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) member and past leader of "Respect the Bump"; Yona Rozen, associate general...
Seaman James "Derek" Lovelace died in 2016 during SEAL training in San Diego.
Seaman James "Derek" Lovelace died in 2016 during SEAL training in San Diego.
In November 2015, Tulane University medical student Peter Gold tried to help a woman who was being dragged down a New Orleans street at gunpoint when the attacker shot him in the stomach and then tried to kill him.
Social media erupted after footage of Sunday's incident appeared to show the passenger pulled from his seat after refusing to give up his space.
Social media erupted after footage of Sunday's incident appeared to show the passenger pulled from his seat after refusing to give up his space.
Damien Echols spent 18 years on death row before DNA evidence proved his innocence. Now he's heading back to Arkansas to protest the seven schedu
