July 25, 2014
#Sidney's Picks: The Koch Brothers, AFSCME, & Daycare Dilemmas
The Best of the Week’s News
- AFSCME broke with the United Negro College Fund after the charity accepted $25 million from the Koch Brothers, the nation’s best-known funders of Black voter suppression.
- Courtney E. Martin, Editor Emerita of the Hillman Prize-winning blog Feministing, explores options to improve our decrepit daycare system.
- The UAW is establishing a toehold at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, and the Volkswagen is fine with that.
- Generous strangers are paying Detroit residents’ overdue water bills online.
[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]