Women in the military who are sexually assaulted or harassed face obstacles not seen in the civilian workplace. They can’t decide to take time off or quit, often have no way to avoid a predator ...

The August jobs report released by the Labor Department on Friday painted a bleak picture about racial inequality in the jobs market. Unemployment for African Americans is now at an astounding 16.7%, ...

In Mississippi, more than almost any state in the nation, cuts to federal programs are taking an enormous toll on families and children. Last month alone 4,000 Mississippi children lost their child ...

By Attica Woodson Scott   The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. — author Alice Walker By most accounts, the economy is improving. Yet the job ...

Helping Working Families Achieve Economic Security Ellen Bravo Director, Family Values @ Work Milwaukee, Wisconsin   Ellen Bravo, a life-long advocate for women, has galvanized the movement ...

By BARBARA EHRENREICH It’s the most intimate class divide in human civilization, or at least in such relatively civilized places as Manhattan and Park Slope, Brooklyn. On the one side, there i ...

By DINESH RAMDE, Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) - A Wisconsin Court of Appeals cleared the way Thursday for a Milwaukee sick-leave policy that was approved by voters in 2008 but held up while oppos ...

by Dyana Bagby As the close of the Georgia legislative session nears, immigration bills that some LGBT activists call discriminatory are advancing in the House and Senate. On Monday, March 14, t ...

La Opinión, News Report, Pilar Marrero, Translated by Elena Shore María Bolaños has been fighting her deportation for more than a year, since a fight with her husband when she ...

by Adam Lynch The Mississippi Senate and House of Representatives are awaiting the governor's signature on a bill forcing all local public-school boards to adopt a policy to add "abstinence-only" or ...