Negin Owliaei
Negin Owliaei is a co-editor and researcher at IPS's Inequality.org. Before joining IPS, she worked as a journalist and digital producer at Al Jazeera Media Network, where she covered social movements and the internet for the award-winning program The Stream.
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Views Wednesday, April 10, 2019 It’s Time for $15 and a Union Last month, McDonald’s announced a dramatic about-face in its political priorities. After years of strikes and protests from labor activists, the burger giant has decided to end its involvement in lobbying campaigns against increasing America’s paltry $7.25 federal minimum wage. It’s a big victory... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 19, 2019 Organizers Oust Amazon HQ2 From New York mazon offered New Yorkers the best possible Valentine’s Day gift — a breakup. The union-busting, deportation-aiding company announced it wouldn’t go forward with plans to build a new headquarters in Queens, financed in part by tax breaks and capital grants, thanks to the sustained organizing... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 19, 2018 Paul Ryan Only Ever Cared About the Rich It feels like a million years have passed since Paul Ryan was Mitt Romney’s vice presidential candidate. But a story from back then speaks volumes about his legacy today. On the campaign trail, Ryan took some heat for “ ramrodding ” his way into an Ohio soup kitchen — without permission — for a... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 10, 2018 Inequality at the Center of Chicago Charter School Strikes Chicago teachers are making history again. Educators at Acero Schools have just reached a tentative deal with their employer after staging the first charter school strike in the nation. After nearly a week of walkouts, the teachers will return to the classroom after the charter network agreed to... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 30, 2018 Lancaster Shows How to Say No to Geo Group What’s the best way to push profit-seeking corporations out of the public sphere? Don’t let them take over in the first place. Residents of Lancaster County, Penn. were thrilled to learn this lesson with their recent victory against Geo Group, a giant of the private prison industry. Geo Group has... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 12, 2018 Teacher Strikes Are About a Lot More Than Paychecks Teachers across the United States are having a moment. Educators are building on the momentum from West Virginia, where striking teachers won a 5 percent pay raise for state employees. Now the protests have spread to Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and the nation’s capital. The educators are winning... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 26, 2018 Tipped Workers Win with Spending Bill President Trump signed a massive omnibus spending bill on Friday, ensuring that the lights will stay on in the federal government for another six months. But the bill does more than just allocate funds. Tucked 2,000 pages into the text is a provision that will protect tipped workers from getting... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 15, 2018 Teachers Deserve a Raise. Here’s How to Fund It. Teachers are ready to revolt. That’s the message we should take away from West Virginia, where educators in every county went on strike recently. The teachers secured a major victory, including a 5 percent raise for state employees. The win couldn’t be more well-deserved. Teachers across the... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 15, 2018 To Understand Inequality in America, Look Outside of the Cities You can’t count on your phone’s mapping app to guide you in rural Alabama, Catherine Flowers says. A Lowndes County native, she recently had visitors try to find their way around using a GPS. The message they received from their device? That they were entering “uncharted territory.” There couldn’t... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 04, 2017 Instead of Cutting Taxes, Listen to Kansas Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to put the final touches on the catastrophic tax proposal they rolled out this week. But the progressive lawmakers and activists gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol were already clear on their message: not one penny in tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations... Read more |