Ehrenreich is best known for her 2001 book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” an unforgettable best-selling expose that highlights what many low-wage workers already know: It’s impossible to get ahead when you can’t even break even.
As the school year begins, students and teachers are fighting back against an onslaught of attacks on antiracist and LGBTQ education.
Bucks County Beacon readers share their views.
The establishment press has overlooked a number of important stories about the right wing—and in some cases, neofascist—push to outlaw abortion.
Hey Bucks County: Banning kids from learning about themselves and each other isn’t just ineffective — it’s cruel.
We’re inspired by Starbucks workers and those at Apple, Amazon, Trader Joe’s, REI and other corporate retail giants who are transforming the U.S. labor movement.
Many school districts in Bucks County and around the nation are taking steps to inhibit learning by banning certain subjects and mistrusting the professional integrity of educators.
14 states have already implemented bans on abortion; an additional 12 are projected to do so in the coming months.
“Showing up and competing in places like Mercer and Venango, and all of the other counties in between, is the secret to winning as a Democrat in Pennsylvania.”
A report by federal prosecutors offered example after example of brutality and constitutional violations, many of which disproportionately impacted Black people and Latinos in this city of almost 90,000 residents.
The incredibly lopsided “balance,” lack of actually diverse viewpoints, and dubious fairness and accuracy displayed in the network’s nomination coverage reveals what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is really going for with the new oversight it installed, writes FAIR’s Julie Hollar.
“The American people have said that the Democratic Party of right now is not what they want,” the Bucks County native told Editor Cyril Mychalejko.
The district “has engaged in a pattern of conduct designed to silence its critics,” said ACLU of Pennsylvania Deputy Legal Director Sara Rose.
Sean Moon, leader of the “antigovernment Christian gun cult” Rod of Iron Ministries, even made an appearance.