Federal, local, and grassroots efforts are converging to bolster wage and hour safeguards for tipped workers, young workers, and day laborers.

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ICE improperly shared Medicaid data on millions—including citizens and legal residents—with Palantir for its ELITE deportation app, despite court...

Health insurers are walking back their 2025 pledge to cut prior authorization barriers, leaving patients to battle denials and surprise costs.

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New Progressive · Jul 18, 2026 Daily Digest

Court Protections for Workers

• 🔥 ACA Marketplace Stay: A federal judge temporarily halted Trump...

Many workers face barriers to in-person protests due to chronic illness, mobility limits, caregiving duties, or exhausting labor under an oppressive...

Does shifting Education programs to Labor truly serve working families and students?

• Democrats highlight that DOL lacks expertise in K-12...

At the AFT Human Rights Luncheon, civil rights leaders urged delegates to fight authoritarian attacks that strip power from working people and hand it...

Across three fronts, current policies trap immigrant and marginalized workers in cycles of abuse and exclusion.

• Forced prison labor in Louisiana's...

Soccer's AI-driven VAR systems and data platforms at the 2026 World Cup depend on low-paid workers in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia...

The bipartisan PROMISE Act offers a critical defense of Social Security for over 70 million Americans by forcing Congress to vote on solvency reforms...

Wage theft devastates working families in food service, where six San Diego deli workers averaged 55-hour weeks yet received only $100 daily flat pay,...

Indiana offers no state-mandated paid or unpaid sick leave in 2026, leaving most workers at the mercy of employer policies.

Key facts for workers:
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For nearly 90 years, the Fair Labor Standards Act has allowed employers to pay disabled workers pennies per hour, with some receiving just 22...

Francesca Hong's campaign as a former chef and single mom highlights affordability and workers' power while sharply criticizing U.S. support for...

Oregon unions demonstrate grassroots resilience through direct mutual aid:

• Cement Masons Local 555 seeks donations for member Beverly Dollof's colon...

A federal judge rebuked BNSF and two rail unions for filing emergency lawsuits only to drop them days later, declaring courts exist neither to provide...

A federal judge blocked Trump administration policies set to shrink ACA marketplaces, finding they would cause irreparable harm to enrollees by...

South Africa's working class endures mass unemployment and hunger after elites abandoned the RDP for neoliberal policies like austerity and...

Unions like the IBEW are fighting data center moratoriums that would wipe out high-quality union jobs and local economic opportunities.

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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler slams Trump's election conspiracies as a ploy to divide workers and shield billionaires from accountability. This defense...