The costs of America’s historic level of economic inequality have been growing for decades and no one has more comprehensively addressed this phenomenon than economist Thomas Piketty, who, in a [...]
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The Growing Rightwing Attacks on K-12 Educators Are Supercharging the National Teacher Shortage
Last fall, after Virginia turned to the right when the Republicans weaponized educational culture war issues, the vast majority of the mainstream coverage reveled in the horserace analysis but never [...]
In Brief: Notes from the War on Public Education
“And now, in 2022, we are in a new educational moment. Between January 2021 and January 2022, the legislatures of 35 states introduced 137 bills to keep students from learning [...]
The Moment is Ripe for American Labor
The impressive wave of labor activism we saw in the fall has continued into 2022, but, despite this, the number of workers represented by a union declined by .5% last [...]
Dispatches from the Education Wars: Solidarity Not Meritocracy Is the Answer
As evidenced by the hysterical stagecraft around “critical race theory” during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Republican obsession with demonizing schools shows no sign [...]
In Brief: From Starbucks to Amazon to Schools, Union Organizing and Militancy is Rolling Across the Country
Promising Wave of Union Victories “The recent, much-publicized wave of union victories in the US at companies as varied as the giant coffee chain Starbucks, trendy outdoor outfitters REI and [...]
The High Costs of Declining College Enrollments, by Jim Miller
Classes start today at San Diego City College, and while I am always happy to meet a new group of students, the unfortunate fact is that there are increasingly fewer [...]
Murderous Inequality is the Central Fact of Our Time, by Jim Miller
We are beginning to see some glimmers of hope that the Omicron wave is cresting in California and the nation at large. While there will surely be more suffering and [...]
San Diego Workers Make Their Voices Heard
There’s been a lot of talk in the national media and elsewhere recently about the new worker militancy. From #Striketober to #Strikesgiving to #Strikemas, many inside and outside the American [...]
AFT Passes Resolution in Support of Reproductive Justice and Gender Equality
At our AFT, 1931 general meeting in November, the membership unanimously voted to pass the following resolution reaffirming reproductive justice and gender equality. In the wake of the assaults on [...]
