Call or email lawmakers, regardless of party, demanding they sign a “no cuts” pledge. The groups even set up an online list so readers can check where their representatives stand.
“Looking back at my own childhood, I saw how important it was for me to mentor young girls in particular. I didn’t have any of that myself. I believe that God has destined me for this role, and that belief drives me every single day.”
In just the last three weeks of this new year, there have been 40 shootings. There were 647 mass shootings in 2022 alone. Firearms are now the No. 1 cause of death among American children.
To deliver transformational change, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona urged everyone to act boldly and unapologetically to address student underperformance and decades of underinvestment.
A historic 30-year organizing effort was victorious on Jan. 13, adding 3,000 new union members at Yale University as graduate students who serve as teachers and researchers voted in a landslide to form a union with Local 33 of UNITE HERE.
The graduate teachers and researchers from all departments and professional schools went union 1,860–179—91%–9%—in the National Labor Relations Board-run election.
Their triumph continues a wave of union victories at private universities around the country, as well as organizing by workers at Starbucks, Amazon and other major corporations.
