By: Erica Smiley, Executive Director, Jobs With Justice |Twitter: @smileyjwj From the farmworkers to the supermarket clerks, the nurses and hospital staff, to the delivery drivers, domestic, and warehouse workers, working people have always been essential to a functioning society and economy, but COVID has laid bare their vital roles…

By Erica Smiley, Executive Director, Jobs With Justice | Twitter: @SmileyJWJ What’s the difference between a McDonald’s worker in Denmark and a McDonald’s worker in California? One is lucky if they make more than $13 an hour, the other earns $22 an hour or more. One is denied paid sick…

By Adam Shah, Senior Policy Analyst, Jobs With Justice | @Handle4Adam U.S. Stocks are up by about 33% since they hit bottom in March and had its best month in decades in April. At the same time, 1 out of 5 American kids are not eating enough because their parents…

By Erica Smiley, Executive Director, Jobs With Justice | Twitter: @SmileyJWJ Meet Erum. She’s a mother of two — a young infant, and a gregarious ice-cream loving son with special needs. Before the crisis, she worked in a cafeteria at a national office building in D.C. Like nearly half the…

By Erica Smiley, Executive Director, Jobs With Justice | Twitter: @SmileyJWJ In many ways, the coronavirus marks a unique and unprecedented crisis in United States history. And at the same time, to address the economic fallout, our government is poised to use the very same bailout strategies for giant corporations…