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After her husband was murdered while working as a journalist in the Philippines, Marivir Montebon arrived in the United States seeking political asylum with the hope of finding a better, safer life for herself and for her daughter, who arrived two years later.When she presents at the Writing Across Borders Conference, sponsored by the National Writers Union (NWU)/UAW Local 1981, in New York on June 1, Montebon will join other women and people of color on a panel to tell their stories about escaping abuse, oppression and the legacy of slavery.
The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation days. That's the key finding of the Center for Economic and Policy Research's new report, No-Vacation Nation Revisited, by Rebecca Ray, Milla Sanes and John Schmitt. With the exception of Japan, none of the other surveyed countries offer their workers fewer than 19 combined paid vacation days and holidays, leaving the United States far behind leading countries, including Austria, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Italy and France—all of which guarantee workers more than 30 paid vacation days and holidays each year.
An Oregon high school student who will be arraigned Tuesday on charges he hatched a Columbine-style bomb plot suffers from a rare form of obsessive-compulsive disorder caused by childhood infections, his mother said.Grant Acord, 17, will be charged as an adult with attempted aggravated murder and possession of destructive devices that authorities said included pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, a Dran...
