(2018-09-13). Fiat Chrysler Kokomo casting plant cited for safety violations before latest worker injury. wsws.org The plant where a Fiat Chrysler worker was severely injured last week was cited for several serious safety violations last year by the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
(2018-09-13). Teachers strike in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. wsws.org The district's teachers are being asked to shoulder increased health care costs.
(2018-09-13). Five million deaths a year due to poor-quality health care. wsws.org As social inequality continues to widen, millions are dying because adequate resources are not allocated to promote public health.
(2018-09-12). How Organizers Made Survivors' Incarceration an Issue in the Cuomo/Nixon Race. truthout.org 
For the Democratic Party, it's been a tense primary season. Across the country, entrenched Democratic incumbents have been faced with progressive challengers. In New York, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has found his progressive challenger in actor and activist Cynthia Nixon. Cuomo has clashed with Nixon over policies that many progressive candidates are demanding, such as the implementation of a statewide Medicare for All system, but another issue has gained promi…
(2018-09-12). Wisconsin's Sen. Baldwin gets strong backing of Emily's List. peoplesworld.org 
(2018-09-12). Poor and unhealthy: Australia's artists in social free-fall. wsws.org Professional performing artists and support crews have a 74-year average life expectancy, ten years less than the general Australian population.
(2018-09-11). National Grid's lockout of Massachusetts gas workers in third month. wsws.org Locked-out workers have suffered through the summer with no pay, health insurance that is either nonexistent, inadequate or exorbitantly expensive, and isolation from workers, which has been enforced by the unions.
(2018-08-30). Venezuela Denounces Regional Anti-Migrant 'Xenophobia' as Brazil Militarises Border. venezuelanalysis.com The Maduro administration contrasted the recent attacks against Venezuelan migrants to its own open door policy which has seen foreigners benefit from free health, housing, education, and food programs.