Jessica Weisberg
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Past articles by Jessica:
The Man Who Wants to Save Your Marriage
Hug longer, become a better listener, and stay together—at any cost. → Read More
Forget Bitcoins, what about time as currency?
Time banking, an old idea, is making a comeback in the digital age → Read More
Amazon Workers Vote Not to Unionize
Nearly thirty Amazon technicians held the first unionization vote in the company’s history. → Read More
The Spanish-Language Version of Healthcare.gov Is a Mess
The Spanish-language version of Healthcare.gov launches months late and poorly translated. → Read More
The Spanish-Language Version of Healthcare.gov Is Written in Spanglish
The Spanish-language version of Healthcare.gov launches months late and poorly translated. → Read More
Should Facebook Pay Its Users?
A new movement known as Wages for Facebook says yes. → Read More
America's Biggest Private Prison Company Now Offers Acupuncture
You just have to go to jail first. → Read More
15 Miners Died on the Job in the Last 3 Months—But Washington Is Cutting Inspections
During the last three months of 2013, fifteen miners died on the job. Most were killed in electrical or powered haulage accidents; others fell from ladders or drowned in a dredge. The number of miner deaths has been steadily declining in recent years, a trend that continued throughout the first nine months of 2013, until the most recent uptick. → Read More
Undocumented Lawyers and Rogue States
So far, 2014 has been a year of states doing as they please. → Read More
Justin Timberlake’s Union Tour
Justin Timberlake's backup dancers have made history by winning a union contract for touring artists. → Read More
NYU Grad Students Vote to Unionize
NYU becomes the only private university with unionized teaching assistants. → Read More
Could John Boehner’s New Immigration Strategist Actually Pass Some Reforms?
The new aide's piecemeal approach to immigration reform may appeal to congressmen, but will it ever appeal to voters? → Read More
How Inequality Became as American as Apple Pie
Last week, five days after Black Friday's Walmart strike and the day before a nationwide fast food workers strike, President Obama delivered a speech at the Center for American Progress about economic disparity and low wages. → Read More
Higher Wages Are Good For Companies Too
A new book argues workers who are paid fairly and treated respectfully are more productive and innovative. → Read More
The US and Canada Are Failing Asylum Seekers
We may think of Canada as our kinder, more generous neighbor, but a new study by the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic indicates that the country’s has adapted a decidedly un-Canadian approach to refugees. → Read More
Can Jeh Johson Fix the Department of Homeland Security?
The incoming DHS chief represents a narrative shift for the agency away from immigration enforcement. → Read More
Meet Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Jewish Mother to the NYC Sanitation Department –
Every morning, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles takes a bus from her home in Riverdale, N.Y., to the train station in Spuyten Duyvil. There, she takes the Metro North to Grand Central, where she hops on a 4 or 5 subway train to the Bowling Green stop. At 44 Beaver Street, the office for the New Yor... → Read More