Opinions
Expand national paid family leave
The law has been a great success. Since 1993, the Family and Medical Leave Act has been used more than 100 million times by women and men and has been a boon for those who have had to provide much needed care for themselves or their families....
Some progress on eating and health
For those concerned about eating and health, the glass was more than half full last week; some activists were actually exuberant. First, there was evidence that obesity rates among pre-school children had fallen significantly. ...
North Korea’s atrocities
The world has long been aware of North Korea’s repression and brutality against its citizens, through the stories of escapees and reports by human rights groups and the State Department. But a study by a special United Nations commission has produced the most authoritative indictment yet....
The dust bowl returns to California’s Central Valley
FRESNO, Calif. — EVERY Saturday in late December and January, as reports of brutal temperatures and historic snowfalls streamed in from family in Vermont, New York and even southern Louisiana, we made weekly pilgrimages to our local beer garden to enjoy craft brews and unseasonably warm afternoons...
The case for a higher minimum wage
The political posturing over raising the minimum wage sometimes obscures the huge and growing number of low-wage workers it would affect. An estimated 27.8 million people would earn more money under the Democratic proposal to lift the hourly minimum from $7.25 today to $10.10 by 2016. And most of th...
Most African leaders not making promised investments in agriculture: 10 years after committing to increase government spending on food production, onl...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The African Union commemorated the 10-year anniversary of the Maputo Declaration on agricultural development with the launch of the “Year of Agriculture and Food Security” last week at its summit in Addis Ababa....
Abracadabra, you’re a part-timer–How corporate America used the great recession to turn good jobs into bad ones
Watch closely: I’m about to demystify the sleight-of-hand by which good jobs were transformed into bad jobs, full-time workers with benefits into freelancers with nothing, during the dark days of the Great Recession....
Nutrition title of farm bill agreement drops Draconian cuts and represents reasonable compromise
The proposed farm bill conference agreement announced today represents a relatively favorable outcome for SNAP and most of the millions of low-income Americans who rely on it, especially in light of what might have occurred or what may occur if Congress rejects this agreement and leaves it to the ne...
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IF you’re confused about all the turmoil in the Arab world and asking how the United States should respond, I find it useful to consider three questions:...
The earned income tax credit: One anti-poverty initiative both sides can agree on
While liberals and conservatives differ sharply in assessing the War on Poverty,[1] they seem to agree that we must do more to help low-income childless workers to succeed in the workplace — most likely by strengthening the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which currently does little for this grou...
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