What's happening

Over 1,400 graduate student workers at the University of Oregon are on strike demanding paid sick and parental leave that communities across Oregon are increasingly requiring employers to provide.   UO Interim President Scott Coltrane is refusing to provide basic paid leave for the workers who teach 1/3 of all undergraduate instructional hours. President Coltrane is rejecting it despite his own academic research on the many positive effects of paid parental leave.

 

The People's Voice

One recent study finds that our nation’s poverty rate would have dropped by 20 percent between 1980 and 2004 if not for mass incarceration and the subsequent criminal records that haunt people for years after they have paid their debt to society.

Millennials make less money, are more likely to live in poverty and have lower rates of employment than their parents did at their ages 20 and 30 years ago.