Archive: News
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WCP: Why Trump will lose Ohio
After Donald Trump won Ohio in 2016 and Republicans swept statewide elections there in 2018, Ohio seemed to have moved firmly to the right. But as John Russo writes in Working-Class Perspectives this
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WCP: The “Other America”: The Poverty and Peril of Domestic Workers
Home health care workers, nannies, cleaners, and other domestic workers earn low wages and have little job security.
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WCP: What Can Workers Expect from Amy Coney Barrett?
Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States poses a difficult question: does her faith commitment as a Roman Catholic preclude an interpretation of the law that is responsive to concerns of the working class?
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WCP: The Unsettling
The wildfires in the West add one more disruption to working-class lives in 2020. People have lost their homes, their livelihoods, and their loved ones.
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WCP: Undelivered: The DeJoy Scandal and Democracy in the Balance
In this turbulent moment, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy aptly symbolizes the precarious state of both our democracy and the workers on whose shoulder its future rests.
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WCP: Unemployed Workers of the World Unite?!?
As we mark Labor Day in the US, more Americans are out of work than at any time in recent memory. But that makes this an ideal time for labor action.
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KI Fall Internships Are Now Open for Applications!
KI is now accepting applications for its virtual paid internships for Fall 2020, which are open to all undergraduate and graduate Georgetown students.
Categories: News, Student Leaders
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WCP: Why You Should Be Getting Your Labor News from Teen Vogue
You might be surprised to hear that some of the best coverage of last week’s professional sports strikes protesting the latest police shooting of an unarmed Black man appeared in a teen fashion magazine.
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WCP: Working-Class Public Housing in the COVID Spotlight
In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Sarah Attfield explains how low-income residents of Australian public housing towers have struggled with lockdowns and policing.
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WCP: The Hidden Price of Education: Black and Working-Class in Academe
One of structural racism’s institutional bases is education, which has a long history of excluding, segregating, and discriminating against people of color, many of whom are also poor or working-class.
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