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The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families

January 16, 2026 Kathleen Rest
In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025

January 15, 2026 Jordan Barab
Uncategorized

Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction

January 14, 2026 Jordan Barab
Congress Silica

Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers

January 14, 2026 Jordan Barab
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

January 12, 2026 Jordan Barab
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The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
Labor
The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Uncategorized
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Congress Silica
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
Labor
The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Uncategorized
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Congress Silica
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Brett Kavanaugh Deconstructing the Administrative State Regulations and Standards

Doing Harm in the Name of Liberty: Lisa Heinzerling on Kavanaugh’s Nomination

September 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

Georgetown Professor of Law Lisa Heinzerling has always been a fresh voice in defending workplace, environmental and consumer protections against…

Alex Acosta

Acosta: It Wasn’t Me

September 6, 2018 Jordan Barab

All across Washington this morning, messages went out from the White House to Cabinet Secretaries ordering them to make a…

OSHA

Events For Those in Washington DC

September 6, 2018 Jordan Barab

A photo book release and a day-long journalist-research symposium LIFE’S WORK, A Fifty Year Photographic Chronicle of Working in the…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Labor Day Edition

September 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

Erie man killed in North East workplace accident NORTH EAST, PA — The Pennsylvania State Police and the Erie County…

This Day In History

Today in History: Anniversary Of Hamlet Fire That Killed 25 Workers Locked In The Plant

September 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

Twenty-seven years ago today, twenty-five chicken processing workers were killed when fire swept through the Imperial Food Products Company plant…

Short Stuff

Dispatches from the Front Line of the Battle for Workplace and Environmental Safety

August 31, 2018 Jordan Barab

See No Evil, Radiate No Evil: Nuclear safety advocate and form Department of Energy official Bob Alverez describes how Trump’s…

Criminal Prosecution OSHA Trench Collapse

Worker Killed In Trench Collapse — Again. Why? And What Can Be Done?

August 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

Another in a continuing, never-ending series on the tragedy of preventable trench collapses (and the journalism that accompanies them.) Anthony…

OSHA

“Safety Is Our Top Priority”

August 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

I read a lot of articles about workers getting killed on the job in preventable incidents. They’re always upsetting. But…

Humor

Trump Calls For More Regulation!

August 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Observers wait to see what two regulations of equivalent cost he will withdraw to make room under his 1-in/2-out Executive…

Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Summer Ends, Workplace Deaths Continue

August 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Man run over while overhauling bus at Chicago Heights junkyard Chicago, IL — A man died after being run over…

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