- America’s Role Reversal: Working-Class Blacks Make Gains While Whites Fall Back https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/income-gap-white-black-working-class-13b8a286?mod=hp_major_pos1 55 comments economics
- Priority #1 for Working America -- Make It Easier to Unionize. Huge union campaign will hopefully counterbalance "corporate power and reverse the decline of the middle class." http://www.alternet.org/workplace/107476/priority_%231_for_working_america_--_make_it_easier_to_unionize/ 3 comments politics
- Trump’s Budget: Making America God-Awful Again | It would destroy what’s left of the social safety net and finish the hollowing out of America’s working and middle classes. https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/trump-budget-economy-military/ 83 comments politics
- Disability Insurance: America's $124 Billion Secret Welfare Program - "Just as the bar for disability fell, the economy turned on the working class, making disability more attractive for reasons both obvious and subtle." http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/disability-insurance-americas-124-billion-secret-welfare-program/274302/?utm_source=twitter 3 comments politics
- AOC Launches Bid to Fight Trump as Top Democrat on House Oversight Committee | As ranking member, Ocasio-Cortez said she would balance the committee's focus "on the incoming president's corrosive actions and corruption with a tangible fight to make life easier for America's working class." https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-committee 172 comments politics