New legislation could make it easier for farmers to hire immigrant labor – a growing need for the dairy and […]

Americans elect their state lawmakers to … make laws.  But sometimes, a lawmaker introduces a bill in his or her own name that isn’t born of thoughtful deliberation or responses to constituent needs.  Rather, the lawmaker offers up what’s known as “model legislation” — prefabricated bills often written by moneyed special interests that want government […]
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Excerpted with permission from In These Times magazine In late May 2018, nine women sued Smithfield Foods, the largest pork processor […]

Editor’s note: President Trump withdrew this week from the Paris Climate Agreement, a global effort to combat climate change. Earlier […]

From the very beginning commodity markets have been manipulated by unscrupulous companies and individuals. For the most part attempts to […]

In the last decade, more than 70 natural disasters have occurred on tribal lands, with some communities being hit more than once a year. According to an analysis from the Center for Public Integrity, tribal nations were on average more vulnerable than the U.S. overall during the same period, based on measures such as unemployment […]
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Leonard Edwards keeps a smart phone in his front pants pocket. He uses his limited minutes to schedule medical appointments and order prescriptions from the pharmacy for the pain from his osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease that has eroded the cartilage and bone in his hips. But Edwards’ access to that cellphone may be at risk. […]
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National political conventions, the high-profile gatherings at which parties anoint presidential nominees, typically feature big money flowing in non-transparent ways.  There’s no indication the 2020 Republican and Democratic conventions will be different. Cash is already starting to course through the secretive system, smoothing the way for powerful special interests to access — and potentially influence […]
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OMAHA, Neb. — At eight months pregnant, government food inspector Rosalie Arriaga was scheduled in March 2018 to handle twice […]

Now officials are posting the complaints online. What changed? This story was originally published on The Guardian. It is not […]