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2 days ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON —To the cheers of the House’s ruling Republicans, who hated forgiving student loans—and thus taking money out of financiers’ hands—even during the coronavirus-caused depression, GOP President Donald Trump will throw an estimated five million student loan borrowers to the financial wolves. The decision, to be implemented starting May 5, says borrowers who are behind on their payments will start receiving collection notices from the U.S. Treasury.
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3 days ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—More than 800 rallies nationwide, aimed at defeating the Trump agenda, including three within Washington D.C., drew at least three million people on April 19. The mobilizations against the president’s agenda focused sharply on saving democracy, Social Security, and health care. The demonstrators made it clear that they are not waiting for the 2026 or 2028 elections to make their point.
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6 days ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
PORTLAND, Ore.—To paraphrase Daniel Webster’s description of Dartmouth College, the Labor Department’s Women’s Bureau “is a small agency, sir, and yet there are those who love it.” The Women’s Bureau has existed for more than a century, and it promotes working women and their equality on the job. And there are those who love it, too. One is Courtney Newberg, a journey-level Ironworker with Local 29 in Portland, Oregon.
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6 days ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—The “Hoovervilles” of the 1930s, encampments of homeless people named after the then-president of the United States, called attention to the Great Depression caused by his giveaways to Big Business. Beginning Monday, April 20, the first such modern-day encampment, this time by dispossessed federal workers backed by the AFL-CIO, will appear near Union Station.
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1 week ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Another day, another loss in federal courts for the Trump administration’s continuing campaign to defy Congress and eliminate federal spending—this time on cleaning up the environment.
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1 week ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
CHICAGO —By a 97%-3% margin in an 85% turnout, members of the Chicago Teachers Union/AFT Local 1 ratified a new four-year contract notable for higher investment in schools with students of color and protections against the depredations—including ICE raids—of the. Trump administration. The pact has raises of 17%-20% over its life, retroactive to when the old pact expired almost a year ago.
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1 week ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
LEXINGTON, Mass.—Patriots will show up once again at Lexington Common in Massachusetts on April 19, just as they did 250 years ago. And they’ll be combating tyranny, as they did back then. But these patriots will be peaceful, not armed. They will be facing the Trump administration rather than British redcoats, as their forbears did there and at nearby Concord, touching off the American Revolution.
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1 week ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—Hedge funds. Monster newspaper chains. “News deserts.” Lack of ads. Then there are repressive measures including barring of reporters from venues where decisions are made, arrests of workers, including news reporters just doing their jobs and direct threats of repercussions against publishers that come from the Trump administration. The shaky status of freedom of the press in the U.S. in calendar 2025, was the topic of a recent two-hour forum News Guild hosted here.
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1 week ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—April 10 was a bad day for workers and women in the Republican-run U.S. House. Lawmakers approved two major items in the Donald Trump regime’s agenda that would hurt both, then quit for a two-week Passover-Easter recess. When you pile the tax cut for the wealthy into a so-called “reconciliation” bill that will slash federal spending on women, families, and everyone but the rich, it became a really terrible week.
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1 week ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—Bernie Sanders is out on the stump again, helping lead, in a big way, the opposition to Donald Trump where other lawmakers have not. And people—tens of thousands of them coast to coast—are responding. The latest proof occurred on April 12 in Los Angeles.
