Virginia lawmakers started off the 2026 General Assembly considering potentially transformative legislation to extend full and equal collective bargaining rights to all state and local government employees, including home care workers. The benefits of such a law would extend far beyond public employees themselves—improving the quality of public services, health care, education, and economic outcomes …
Category Archives: Racial Justice
How Senator Vance’s anti-DEI bill would hurt workers and reward corporations
By: Samantha Sanders and Josh Bivens The Trump-Vance campaign claims to side with the virtuous working class against “woke” elites pushing their social agenda. This stance has always been a transparent scam—in just about every fight that pits the material interests of capital and corporations against those of typical workers, Trump and Vance favor the …
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The Biden-Harris administration has boosted the multiracial working class
The share of workers earning at least $17 an hour jumped from 63% to 79% between 2019 and 2023 When people talk about “the working class,” they often invoke the image of a white man in a blue-collar job and stop there. In reality, the working class looks a lot like the overall U.S. population—it …
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Project 2025’s abortion bans and the Trump-Vance plan to undercut workers and families’ economic rights
As states that have already banned abortion show, abortion bans work hand in hand with other economic policies–like low minimum wages and lack of healthcare–to impoverish workers and their families.
Trump’s Project 2025 would gut anti-discrimination enforcement in the workplace
By: Adewale Maye and Valerie Wilson During the first presidential debate, Donald Trump used the term “Black jobs” to falsely claim that immigrants were taking jobs mostly held by Black workers. While this generalization is both harmful and racist, this moment also highlighted the importance of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC …
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Project 2025 is not simply a “wish list”—it’s a real threat to our hard-fought rights and freedoms
By Celine McNicholas, General Counsel and Director of Policy, and Naomi Walker, Executive Vice President By now, you’ve likely heard of Project 2025, the policy mandate produced by the Heritage Foundation alongside more than 110 conservative groups that aims to completely overhaul U.S. government and society. You may have also heard about the recent staff …