{"id":901,"date":"2024-04-29T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=901"},"modified":"2024-05-01T12:09:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:09:56","slug":"can-unions-help-save-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-unions-help-save-our-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Unions Help Save Our Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are living in a time of unprecedented pessimism.\u00a0 Our political system is broken as never before, and our faith and confidence in our major institutions \u2013 Congress, the White House, our courts, organized religion, the news media, <em>everything<\/em> \u2013 has fallen to record lows.\u00a0 Does organized labor hold an answer to a brighter tomorrow?\u00a0 Alex Han, director of <em>In These Times<\/em>,\u00a0 presents a powerful argument that labor, the source of all wealth, may be the <em>only<\/em> answer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can unions rebuild our democracy?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/labor-rebuild-democracy-unions-workers-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/labor-rebuild-democracy-unions-workers-power&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712592283497000&amp;usg=AOvVaw13bWgwrkq3VeVrBbzIwgcK\">https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/labor-rebuild-democracy-unions-workers-power<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are living in a time of unprecedented pessimism.\u00a0 Our political system is broken as never before, and our faith and confidence in our major institutions \u2013 Congress, the White House, our courts, organized religion, the news media, everything \u2013 has fallen to record lows.\u00a0 Does organized labor hold an answer to a brighter tomorrow?\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/can-unions-help-save-our-democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Can Unions Help Save Our Democracy?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}