Energy was high, and the night air was cold, so people were dancing. The music switched between Anuel AA and Pop Smoke, while Teamsters wearing thick layers—hats, gloves, masks—chanted in call and ...

But is “essential” describing the workers themselves? Or only the work they do? Right now, many don’t feel like they’re being treated like they’re essential, and workers at Amazon, Walmart and other ...

“The most wonderful time of the year” can be very stressful — especially if you’re a retail worker like me. I work at Dollar General. Being a retail worker during a pandemic has been difficult — I ...

The other day, I did something most of my fellow liberals have never done — I had a serious conversation with an essential worker. He could have been a grocery clerk, a construction worker, a health ...

As the coronavirus pandemic began to hit the United States, schools shut down and moved online for the remainder of spring for the safety of their teachers and students. Now, with a new academic year ...

Before doctors and nurses can begin their work treating people receiving treatment for COVID-19, cleaners like me do the very hard and dangerous work of disinfecting and keeping every surface up to a ...

A new ruling settles the question if New Jersey teachers are essential workers who can file workers' comp claims over ...

The Daily Press has launched a series of interviews with essential workers who are working bravely and diligently to keep the Santa Monica community functioning. Paul Jamar is a sanitation worker who ...

As if sex and dating weren't already complicated enough, enter COVID-19. With social distancing orders in place, you've either taken your dating game online or put it on pause entirely. But what does ...

Politicians have too much power over our lives. Many used the pandemic as another excuse to take more. Early on, politicians declared that they would decide who was "essential." Everyone else was told ...

The nonprofit group boxes up people's extra household items to donate. Americans have celebrated essential workers keeping the country going during the coronavirus pandemic and now a new platform is ...

Newly-classified "essential workers" talk risking their lives for minimum wage. David Williams described his wife of 19 years, Vitalina, as "the most wonderful lady on the face of the planet." "Me ...