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Rideshare driver Jorge Vargas raises his No on 22 sign in support as app based gig workers held a driving demonstration with 60-70 vehicles blocking Spring Street in front of Los Angeles City Hall urging voters to vote no on Proposition 22, a November ballot measure that would classify app-based drivers as independent contractors and not employees or agents, providing them with an exemption from Californias AB 5. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

In labor setback, Prop 22 wins in Calif.

Nicole Karlis
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The stock market is not the economy

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on October 17, 2020 in Muskegon, Michigan. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

A general strike if Trump rejects vote

Matthew Rozsa
The facade of the New York Stock Exchange is seen in the New York financial district on Wall Street (Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images)

Will no one collect the Wall Street tax?

Bob Hennelly
Eviction Notice On Door (Getty Images)

Rent debt could top $70B: analysis

Igor Derysh
One yellow binder clip between black ones (Getty Images)

On "camouflaging" autism in a pandemic

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/filadendron)

The spooky possibility of thrift stores

Francesca Lyman - InvestigateWest
During a protest organized by Make the Road Pennsylvania outside the Berks County Services Building in Reading, PA Tuesday afternoon September 1, 2020 to call for Gov. Wolf and the State Legislature to extend the eviction moratorium in Pennsylvania indefinitely. The group is concerned about the risk of eviction to people affected by the economic downturn resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 / Coronavirus pandemic. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

The threat of COVID-induced white flight

Sabrina Terry, Jason Richardson
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A pathology of misinformation

Matthew Rozsa
US President Donald Trump speaks at the American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Convention and Trade Show in Austin, Texas on January 19, 2020. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Trump's trade war backfired

Rebecca Ray - The Conversation
People in face masks working at computers (Getty Images)

The female recession, explained

Nicole Karlis
Reading On A Stack Of Books (Getty Images)

COVID exposes flows in childcare economy

Sonali Kolhatkar - Independent Media Institute
Nurses stage a protest with support from the registered nurses union, SEIU Local 121RN, outside the West Hills Hospital on June 18, 2020 in West Hills, California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Workers confront COVID safety violations

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Tom Steyer introduces a panel during the National Clean Energy Summit 6.0 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on August 13, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (saac Brekken/Getty Images for National Clean Energy Summit 6.0)

Why Tom Steyer is over the free market

Matthew Rozsa
A smartphone's Lyft app displays a message motivating users to vote yes on Proposition 22 in Oakland, California on October 9, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Uber drivers sue over in-app "coercion"

Matthew Rozsa
Screenshot from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Twitch stream, playing Among Us (Twitch/Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)

AOC's historic Twitch stream

Matthew Rozsa
Rep Jim Jordan, R-OH, speaks during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing on Online Platforms and Market Power in the Rayburn House office Building, July 29, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan-Pool/Getty Images)

Both parties want to break up Big Tech

Matthew Rozsa
Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Social Media Timeline (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A public alternative to Facebook

Matthew Rozsa
Elon Musk | Luis Arce claims victory and celebrates with supporters during a press conference following the general election of MAS (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Morales stans mock Musk's imperial rant

Matthew Rozsa
Mike Lewis and Shelby Floyd in a hemp field in Kentucky. (Photo credit: ) (Anna Carson Dewitt Photography, courtesy of Third Wave Farms)

Cannabis cultivation: patchwork policies

Nate Seltenrich - FairWarning
Donald Trump | US-Mexico Border Wall (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump hasn't delivered on infrastructure

Jared Brey - Capital & Main
Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the L.A. Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

California's karmic debt to the world

Curtis White
Jeff Bezos, Tom Steyer and Bill Gates (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Billionaire wealth hits new record high

Igor Derysh
A worker cleans a voting machine after it was used at McKinley Technology High School on primary election day on June 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. On Tuesday, nine states and the District of Columbia are holding primaries, most of which were previously delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Can we trust the voting machines?

Matthew Rozsa
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