The strikes and walkouts show the growing power of workers who are in high demand in a tightening economy.
Alana Semuels
Semuels is a senior correspondent at TIME covering the consumer side of healthcare. She previously wrote about economics and business news. She is a four-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and she has won awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers and the Los Angeles Press Club.
There's a glut of municipal firefighters and not enough federal ones, even though house fires have declined and wildfires are growing
Prices are going up in the U.S. economy because the supply chain that moves goods around is incredibly clogged.
Big tech companies promise jobs and tax dollars when they build data centers in small cities and towns, but they rarely deliver
Author of "The Sum of Us," McGhee explains how racism does a disservice to all Americans by way of inadequate public resources.
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After 17 months of having to show up to jobs in person, America’s hourly workers may be gaining leverage.
For a week, I tried to shop only at companies run by women. It was nearly impossible.
In 2019, 169 out of 209 metropolitan regions in the U.S. were more segregated than in 1990, a new analysis finds.
Some builders say it's time to switch to steel-based construction as climate change fuels bigger and more destructive fires
Alaska Airlines is the first U.S. airline to use AI designed by tech company Airspace Intelligence to help plan its flights
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Experts worry that the students who are forgoing college are the ones who need higher education most.
We ate at home, worked at home, socialized more outdoors and just got lazy during pandemic lockdowns
George Floyd's killing heightened calls for better officer training, but independent police academies are an obstacle to changing the system
Workers and unions support "right of recall" legislation to give first dibs to laid-off workers when companies begin rehiring
If the past few years have been alarming, this year's record fires have made life in California seem impossible.
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