All posts tagged "Workers"

An economist is predicting how Democrats can defeat MAGA and reconnect with American workers with "two major makeovers."

Dani Rodrik, Harvard University’s Kennedy School professor and the author of “Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor and Our Climate," suggests a new strategy for Democrats and how they approach the working class in an opinion piece for The New York Times published Monday.

Democrats need a strong jobs agenda, focused on creating good jobs and moving away from the notion that "officials thinking about economic development need to get over their manufacturing fetishism," he argued....

While reading about immigration in his freshman history book, Houston high school student Cody Burren noticed an incredibly misleading blurb. A caption referred to the African slaves who were forced into the United States as "workers." As a black student who had already been educated on the nation's true history, Cody knew the euphemism was unacceptably deceptive.

Two management workers in Newark, Delaware rescued a female driver just in time Thursday morning from an on-coming train after her car was stuck on the surrounding tracks.

Foxconn, the Taiwanese company manufacturing products for prominent tech companies including Apple, is responding to major criticism for the harsh treatment of its employees by saying they will raise their salaries.