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Dollar stores' business model is all about exploitation. And it's showing no signs of slowing down.  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

"Medical doctor and epidemiologist John Wright recorded the dramatic life and death events as his hospital went into battle against Covid. His 350-page diary tells how Bradford Royal Infirmary tore up the usual disinfection protocols and sterilised respirators with gin donated from distilleries and of how public health was hampered by the fake news that non-white patients would be left to die. The...

Wade's thoughts on the Wall Street Journal's coverage of "non-profit" hospitals' dismal level of charity care.  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

" This is the first book to lay out how climate change has become an economic issue above all and how that has changed everything from the business to politics to the outlook for the future. Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, a national, nonpartisan organization dedicated to providing business perspectives on environmental issues, shows readers how this new reality will impact their industries,...

How A Community Voice got it! ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

Ok, who would replace Biden on the ticket? Let's get real! ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

Branches from across England and Wales came together to assess ACORN UK 's 8 years of progress and to plot the course ahead.  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

The disturbingly low organizing goals of the AFL-CIO's new leadership are...not good! ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

Check out the book here. A pathbreaking work for the next stage of the #MeToo movement, showing how we can address sexual harms with fairness to both victims and the accused, and exposing the sexism that shapes today's contentious debates about due process Over the past few years, a remarkable number of sexual harassment victims have come forward with their stories, demanding consequences for thei...

Buying a home is increasingly out of reach. We need tenant rights.  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

Jason Linkins' piece in New Republic was music to our ears. Let's get ACORN going again! ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

How the shootings in Uvalde have impacted workers' demands for greater security, including for our sister labor union, Local 100 .  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

Updates on our French affiliate's fight for women's right to free expression . Check out Alliance Citoyenne here.  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

Check out the book here , by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta. The Future We Need  positions the struggle to build collective bargaining power as a central element in the effort to build a healthy democracy. It offers new approaches to how we build worker power in a world in which the economy has dramatically changed over the last century—evolving collective bargaining as we know it to match the...

The Supreme Court in FEC vs. Ted Cruz for Senate ruled that candidates can now reimburse any and every cent they 'lend' themselves to run for office with campaign funds...removing yet another barrier to all-out rule by the rich! ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community,...

Wade's contribution to the Working Class Perspectives blog. This is a rare opportunity for workers, and institutional labor needs to do everything it can to organize in this window. Our own contribution is the Workers Organizing and Support Center .  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the...

A co-sign of Chloe Maxmin's urgent warning to Democrats. They need to get talking to rural people! We know a thing or two about that from our Rural Power Project .  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acornin...

This is a match made in hell! ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

Mark 'River' Peoples talks to Wade about the Big Muddy's estuaries and wildlife habitat and the Mississippi River Restoration and Resilience Initiative (MRRRI), which the Mississippi River Network is working to get passed. ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and th...

Leslie Samuelrich of GreenCentury talks to Wade about her effort to win a seat on the McDonald's board to get the company to change course on factory farming, especially its abysmal treatment of pigs.  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questio...

It's Trump Country, but Trump offers nothing to the people who live there.  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here . Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world. Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternational.org.

Wade's take on the dollar as the reserve currency when sanctions against Russia are stacking up.

Check out the book here.  Power grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but what do we do when that drama becomes a reality all around us? For a country founded as an escape from British tyranny, the United States seems to have devolved into a land where tyrants rise to power, sycophants blindly follow, and the entire nation suffers. As ancient Greek ph...

In which we go ahead with a press conference on our hospital price transparency report despite falling caterpillars and a tornado warning.