Discover Progressive Nonprofits
You think we have vaccination problems? Check out Europe: The European Union has been besieged by problems since it approved its first coronavirus vaccine in December and rushed to begin a vast immunization campaign, but now its woes have snowballed …
It’s the latest bill in the state legislature’s long history of meddling with voter-approved amendments. Just months ago, Florida residents overwhelmingly voted to approve “Amendment 2,” a ballot initiative that raised the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by …
The City Council voted to buy one hotel and use funds diverted from its police budget to set up wraparound services for the homeless people who will live there. The Austin City Council voted today to purchase one hotel and …
Austin Will Use Money Cut From Police Budget To Buy Supportive Housing More >
The Travis County District Attorney’s office had joined the release request and, despite Jimenez being taken into custody by ICE, she is expected to be released today. Rosa Jimenez was sentenced to 99 years in prison for a crime that …
Rosa Jimenez, Convicted on ‘Junk Science’, Set for Release After More Than 15 Years in Prison More >
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 following a campaign of pledges to build a wall along the …
The online pranksters behind the great GameStop bubble of 2021 are probably going to lose a lot of money. But they’ve done the world a service by reminding us of the utter uselessness of the stock market, an institution that …
The GameStop Bubble Is a Lesson in the Absurdity and Uselessness of the Stock Market More >
“Grant program now accessible to more B.C. businesses,” Province of British Columbia A report issued last week by the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University finds that unemployment in the nonprofit sector remains high many months after …
Nonprofit Employment Remains below Pre-Pandemic Levels More >
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. January has become the deadliest month of the pandemic so far, with at least 80,000 …
In California, COVID-19 is exacerbating housing inequities. Indigenous activist Jackie Fielder believes she has a solution. In mid-December, a federal survey found that more than 1.5 million Californians were behind on rent, while more than 2.5 million had little …
Here’s a headline in Politico: Unemployment Is Much Worse Than You Think — Here’s Why. Anyone who wants full-time work but can only find part-time work, and those working full-time but earning too little to climb above the poverty line, …
Unemployment Is . . . About As Bad As You Think It Is More >
The New York governor has released a plan to legalize marijuana, months after voters in the Garden State approved legalization in November. Advocates say the pressure could have ripple effects regionally. New Jersey was one of four states to legalize …
New Jersey Could Force Cuomo’s Hand on Pot Legalization More >
The attorney general could pick a new head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. That person should have public health experience, formerly incarcerated activists say. As President Biden and his administration begin selecting political appointees, civil rights advocates and formerly …
Why The Biden Administration’s Choice To Lead The Bureau of Prisons Matters More >
The City Council will decide whether to buy two hotels and use funds diverted from its police budget to set up wraparound services for the homeless people who will live there. On Wednesday, the Austin City Council will vote on …
Austin May Use Money Cut From Police Budget To Buy Permanent Supportive Housing More >
After Trump’s 2017 inauguration, the meme saturating our political discourse was neo-Nazi Richard Spencer getting punched in the head. Today, it’s Bernie Sanders in mittens, dutifully but joylessly sitting through Biden’s inauguration. It’s a marker of our new political context: …
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A federal economic relief package passed by Congress in March promised to provide a lifeline for hospitals, particularly …
How the CARES Act Forgot America’s Most Vulnerable Hospitals More >
“Disinformation,” by @kevinledo. Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter. On January 6, some of us watched the storming of the Capitol with horror and surprise. Others of us watched with horror and resignation—an awful feeling that this was an inevitable outcome …
Defanging Disinformation: 6 Action Steps Nonprofits Can Take More >
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, the Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We look now at growing inequality during the pandemic. A new report …
When Shane Morigeau was growing up on the Flathead Indian Reservation, he knew that the land inside the fenced National Bison Range was different from the tribal lands elsewhere on the reservation, at the base of Montana’s Mission Mountains or the …
Consolidated News Photos/CNP via ZUMA Wire) At the risk of saying the obvious, isn’t it true that the legislative filibuster has already been abolished? Sure, there hasn’t been an official announcement or anything, but everyone agrees that the majority party …
On Tuesday, Harris County Commissioners will decide if the D.A. and Sheriff will get more money to continue their neglect in the face of a public-health crisis. As of Sunday, there were 8,889 people incarcerated inside Houston’s Harris County Jail, …
‘No Beds Left’: Houston’s Jail is a COVID-19 Superspreader More >
Изображение Antonio Cansino с сайта Pixabay During the first week of his presidency, Joe Biden has sought to undo some of the most harmful policies pushed by the former administration of Donald Trump. Many of these reversals, such as immigration …
Biden Outlines His Administration’s Vision for Immigrant Rights More >
Bernie Sanders is pushing a new proposal as part of the stimulus bill that would give everyone free health care during the pandemic. His plan would get us qualitatively closer to Medicare for All — and we should all rally …
Bernie Sanders Gets It. We Should All Have Free Health Care During the Pandemic. More >
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to look at how over 1,400 essential workers at the largest wholesale produce market in the country won a major victory this …
Peter Kalmus, out of his mind, stumbled back toward the car. It was all happening. All the stuff he’d been trying to get others to see, and failing to get others to see — it was all here. The day …
The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try. More >
Far-flung populations and limited cold-storage resources present challenges to clinics. Arizona National Guard Soldiers checked in patients and administered the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Payson, Arizona, on Jan. 4, 2021. This story was originally published by …
Rural communities grapple with COVID-19 immunization rollout More >
Donald Trump makes a toast during a state dinner hosted by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in November 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get …
A Year Ago Today, Trump Said COVID Would “All Work Out Well” More >
The ALP’s right faction is riddled with corruption and cover-ups that are holding the party back. We can’t rely on the legal system to clean out the ALP’s stables — empowering Labor members through real party democracy is the only …
Corrupt, Right-Wing Machine Politics Are Crippling the Australian Labor Party More >
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This piece was originally published in The Weekly Dispatch, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country. Sign up for it here. In May of last year, ProPublica health care …
“We’ve Let the Worst Happen”: Reflecting on 400,000 Dead More >
Reported by: Chris Jones and Anjali Kamat Produced by: Michael Montgomery, Najib Aminy, Elizabeth Shogren, Chris Harland-Dunaway and Jonathan Jones Edited by: Jennifer Goren, Taki Telonidis and Kevin Sullivan Production manager: Amy Mostafa Production assistance: Brett Simpson Digital producer: Sarah …
[embedded content]Click here to download accompanying slidesThis webinar in our Remaking the Economy series looks at healthcare, the largest single sector of the US economy. Famously, the US pays more for healthcare than any other nation, 17.7% of the economy in 2019, …
Remaking the Economy: Health, Racial Disparities, and Economic Justice More >