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Friday, October 11, 2019

Getting Time Off Work To Support Disabled Kids Shouldn’t Be Hard. For Some Parents, It Is.
by Laura Dorwart
59 percent of workers have access to federally-protected leave to support their disabled kids in school. What about everyone else?

Closing Old Jails Doesn’t Mean You Have to Open New Ones
by Marlon Peterson
Rikers Island is a human rights disaster. Replacing it with four new jails is too.

Racism and Sexism Combine to Shortchange Working Black Women
by Jocelyn Frye
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: The fight for Black women’s equal pay must address race and gender biases that erode Black women’s wages and undermine their ability to thrive.

The Supreme Court showdown over LGBTQ discrimination
Ian Millhiser and Laura Durso on the three SCOTUS cases that stand to decide the fate of LGBTQ rights in the workplace and beyond. PLUS: Trump’s move to ban immigrants who can’t afford unsubsidized health care, explained; and everything you need to know about Trump’s latest attack on SNAP.

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Health Care Roulette. Spin the wheel: If you're lucky, media coverage of your surprise medical bill will shame your hospital into reversing it. That's if they let you out at all, as Washington State psychiatric patients learned the hard way. Also in Washington, medical residents working grueling hours for low pay say it's time for a raise.

How the Sausage Gets Made. After the USDA finalized a rule increasing pork processing line speeds, the United Food and Commercial Workers union sued to protect human health and workplace safety. The situation highlights the importance of whistleblowers willing to speak out about dangerous practices on the production line. They're not the only ones speaking out: The meatpacking industry is having a #MeToo moment as women from the kill floor to sales are reporting rampant sexual harassment.

Resistance Isn't Futile. Journalist Rose Eveleth puts forward a thoughtful counterpoint to the narrative that growing surveillance and ethics violations in tech are inevitable and unstoppable. In the halls of the mighty Google, workers are rebelling, and the founders are nowhere to be seen. And over at Amazon, the store that handles one third of the U.S. online retail market, Jeff Bezos is thirsty to expand his empire at any cost, but the workers are restless.

Ozark Life

Terra Fondriest's images of everyday life in the Ozarks are intimate, raw, and authentic. That's because she's photographing her own family, friends, and community, whether they're clocking in for work or butchering chickens.

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