Atlantic City’s Streak of Bad Luck
“We want the casino to open,” says a server at Caesars. “I want to go back to work. But they have to do it responsibly.”
Winter 2024
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Hot & Bothered: Designing a Green New Deal, with Billy Fleming
Billy Fleming discusses not just the kinds of policies that should anchor a Green New Deal, but how to advance an effective inside-outside strategy to win them as we gear up for 2021.
Minnesota Senate Denies School Support Staff Job Security
A new state bill aimed to protect the jobs of hourly school employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But language protecting those workers was rejected by the Senate.
“We Risk Our Lives Every Day”: Building Service Workers Strike
Workers at 75 Wall Street in New York are demanding management return to the bargaining table.
Seafood Workers Call for PPE
“I want to remind the owners of the factories that they’re the ones who can save our lives.”
Crying Before Work, but Still Showing Up
A home care attendant is determined to keep helping her vulnerable clients. “I’ve been in this field eighteen years,” she said. “So why would I turn my back now, when I know they need me to feed them?”
Hot & Bothered: A Climate Story to Win a Multiracial Majority, with Mary Annaïse Heglar
Mary Annaïse Heglar talks to Kate and Daniel about climate grief; why we don’t have to choose between caring about police violence and caring about the polar bears; and why Bernie Sanders’s campaign message didn’t resonate with many (especially older) black voters.
Displaced from Chinatown Restaurants and Waiting for Unemployment
Two restaurant workers tell their stories.
Epidemiology Students at Harvard Want a Contract
Graduate students are doing essential work researching pandemics. They have no guarantee that work will continue.
Belabored Podcast #197: Food Workers and the Virus
The illness in the food chain should remind us that we are all only as healthy as the sickest person in society.
Sephora Makes Plans to Reopen
“They have very unrealistic expectations of workers sacrificing their health so that people can buy makeup.”
Hot & Bothered Podcast: A New Commonwealth, with Jedediah Britton-Purdy
On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Jedediah about his vision of commonwealth politics; the challenges of organizing in a socially distanced world; where the law fits in; and whether coming together also means naming new enemies.
Belabored Stories: NYU Teaching Assistants Are on a Sick-Out
Graduate student-workers, who are paid on a nine-month schedule, are worried about the summer.
Belabored Stories: “I Was Trying To Be an Ethical and Responsible Healthcare Worker”
A pharmacy technician who tested positive for COVID-19 worries that not enough has been done to protect his coworkers—and that he faces a backlash for speaking out.
Know Your Enemy #17: Longtime Listener, First-Time Caller (the Mailbag Episode)
Matt and Sam celebrate one year of Know Your Enemy by answering listener questions about hidden conservatives, right-wing novelists, COVID-19, George W. Bush, the Sanders collapse, and more.
