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Illegal effort to relocate about 75 people living in tents beneath an overpass near the Superdome
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/26/taylor-swift-new-orleans-homeless-sweep
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Unhoused people age 60 and over found dead in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and on sidewalks.
#heartlesscities #tentcities #Hoovervilles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/homeless-senior-citizen-deaths-los-angeles
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Unhoused people age 60 and over found dead in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and on sidewalks.
#heartlesscities #tentcities #Hoovervilles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/homeless-senior-citizen-deaths-los-angeles
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Unhoused people age 60 and over found dead in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and on sidewalks.
#heartlesscities #tentcities #Hoovervilles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/homeless-senior-citizen-deaths-los-angeles
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Unhoused people age 60 and over found dead in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and on sidewalks.
#heartlesscities #tentcities #Hoovervilles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/homeless-senior-citizen-deaths-los-angeles
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Two dozen children, some as young as 13 years old, in meatpacking plants
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/8/headlines/tennessee_company_fined_649_000_for_employing_children_to_clean_slaughterhouses
#migrantchildren #childexploitation -
Federal program provides low-income families with a grand total of $120 to supplement food costs for the summer break between school terms.
But hard-hearted Republicans want nothing of it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/13/mississippi-child-school-food-program-welfare-state
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Staten Island: first-ever U.S. Amazon union, formed in 2022
#invisibleworkforce
#workplacesurveillance
#UnionStronghttps://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/15/amazon_union_documentary
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Donald Trump and others are threatening to force people into “tent cities”, meaning, the forced displacement of unhoused folks into internment camps out in the middle of nowhere
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/29/law-professor-homeless-rights-supreme-court-ruling
#Hoovervilles #homelessinAmerica #LandofPlentyofRepression -
worth repeating: Senator called Musk a "dick boss – except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick" -- one of many "billionaire asshole bosses”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/tina-smith-minnesota-senator-interview
#workerExploitation -
"Pay has been lousy for decades and jobs less secure because of the power of large corporations and the rich to rig the market and siphon off most of the economy’s gains."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/14/democrats-election-working-class-voters
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“Workers talk about getting dizzy, throwing up, working themselves into a state of exhaustion...”
Last summer, Phoenix endured record-breaking heat, seeing 31 days straight with temperatures over 110F (43C). In 2023, heat killed 340 people in Phoenix and 645 people in Maricopa county. Three out of four fatalities took place outdoors.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/27/phoenix-workers-heat-protection-law
#WorkRelatedDeaths #heatislandeffect #SkyHarborAirport #HeatIndex
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Are Yale University's policies breaking federal law? The Univ. is "harshest on students with mental health disabilities from less privileged backgrounds, including students of color, students from poor families or rural areas,"
#MentalHealthDisabilities #classactionsuit
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/5/yale_university_discrimination_lawsuit_mental_health -
"The Northwest Center (formerly the Northwest Side Housing Center) began as an anti-predatory lending task force in response to the increase in foreclosures leading up to the 2008 housing crisis."
https://www.northwestcenterchicago.org/about
#ForeclosurePrevention #RentalCounseling #FirstTimeHomeBuyer -
universities around this country relying on contingent labor
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/18/headlines/faculty_at_university_of_illinois_chicago_launch_strike
#bizmodel #precariat -
universities around this country relying on contingent labor
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/18/headlines/faculty_at_university_of_illinois_chicago_launch_strike
#bizmodel #precariat -
universities around this country relying on contingent labor
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/18/headlines/faculty_at_university_of_illinois_chicago_launch_strike
#bizmodel #precariat