Archive:What’s Happening at the KI
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Students Protest Housing Conditions at Howard University
On many fronts, the challenge of affordable housing in Washington is evident. Housing prices continue to rise, contributing to gentrification and neighborhood displacement. Encampments across the cit
Category: Updates
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WCP: Blue-Collar Babies: Why America’s Working Class Needs Affordable Child Care
The recent Netflix series Maid, based on Stephanie Land's memoir, highlights the challenges that poor and working-class mothers face in juggling low-wage jobs, social services, and child care. As Lan
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Class and Water: Climate-Charged Displacement
Climate change threatens all of us, but it is already having -- and will continue to have -- especially powerful effects on working-class people and communities. In Working-Class Perspectives this we
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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Check Out KI In the News
As the pandemic continues to impact worker and the labor movement, KI's historians, fellows, and labor experts continue to share their expertise on the implications of this historic moment. Check
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WCP: The Multiracial Working Class
That the working class includes people of all races seems obvious to those who study class. But too often, and especially in discussions about voting patterns, when people talk about "the working cla
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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EVENT: Affordable Housing in DC During (and after) the Pandemic
Housing affordability has long been an issue of concern for residents of Washington, one of the major U.S. cities most affected by gentrification. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it’s an issue th
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Welcoming Debbie Berkowitz as a KI Fellow
KI is excited to welcome Debbie Berkowitz to KI as a fellow focusing on worker safety and health. Debbie has made a career in advocacy for workers and we a proud to have her join our team. Read her b
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WILL Empower Welcomes 2021-2022 Class of Apprentices
WILL Empower is thrilled to welcome our fourth class of apprentices! This Fall, ten activists will join organizations across the country advocating for worker justice as part of the WILL Empower
Category: Updates
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WCP: Some Dreamers of the Rusty Dream
This year has brought a couple of high-end television series focused on working-class communities. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Kathy M. Newman looks at the latest entry, Showtime's Ameri
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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EVENT: No Globalization without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality
On September 9, Jessica Champagne, the Deputy Director for Strategy and Field Operations for the Worker Rights Consortium led a conversation with Paul Adler, Assistant Professor of 20th Century U.S.