essential-workers

City Curfews Are Leaving Essential Workers Stranded

When Uber and Lyft stop running, essential workers are hit the hardest — forced to risk their safety to get to their jobs and back

Customers Are Finding Shittier and Shittier Ways to Treat Service Workers

‘Essential work’ has always been stressful, low-paid and under-appreciated. But nothing could have prepared workers for being spit on, screamed at and even shot during the pandemic

America Has a Child Care Crisis. Will COVID Finally Be Our Wake-Up Call?

America’s lack of subsidized child care was already an embarrassment. During the pandemic, when essential workers are dragging their kids along on risky jobs, it’s a full-blown disaster

The Word ‘Hero’ Has Lost All Meaning

When essential workers are risking death, they need more than idle praise