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Stephen Franklin
Stephen Franklin, former labor and workplace reporter for the Chicago Tribune, is ethnic news director for the Community Media Workshop in Chicago. He is the author of Three Strikes: Labor’s Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans (2002), and has reported throughout the United States and the Middle East. He can be reached via e-mail at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Franklin, who speaks Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish, spent time in Egypt teaching journalists while on a Knight International Press Fellowship. He has received two Lisagor awards for business reporting and a George Polk Award for consumer interest reporting with Marcia Stepanek at the Detroit Free Press in 1983. Franklin lives on the North Side of Chicago with his wife, director of a local social services agency. The couple have two children.
Most Recent Articles
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Below Soaring CEOs, Struggling Black and Latino Youths
We hear much nowadays about the rich, and how rising inequality is a result of just how wealthy more »
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Goin’ Backward in Indiana: Muncie’s Omen and the Push for ‘Right to Work’
As Indiana legislators move closer to passing a "right-to-work" law, consider Muncie’s omen. This can be more »
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More Than a Number: Troubling Trends Behind the Dropping Unemployment Rate
So the unemployment rate’s drop last month means we’re heading out of this tunnel, more »
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Welcome Home Vets: Your Jobs Are Long Gone
By Stephen Franklin If you have ever spent time with the people fighting our wars today, you know more »
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Iran’s Simmering Labor Struggle
'Sooner or later,' an Iranian union organizer says, the country's precarious economy 'will blow up'—and more »
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What’s Happening to Black Families?
The new census figures dumbfound me. What’s happening to black families? Countless news reports, based on more »
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A Mumbai Slum’s Quest for Dignity
MUMBAI, INDIA—In the breathless heat, Fahim Vora begins his tour of India’s largest slum more »
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Egypt’s Workers: All They Needed Was the Courage
When they began staging their protests in downtown Cairo, it seemed so risky, so unimaginable, so likely to more »
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What Are the Public Sector Unions to Do?
In South Dakota, where union members in the private workforce are nearly a mirage, Republican lawmakers are thinking more »
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To Organize Foreign Carmakers, UAW Must Build Transnational Labor Coalition
After years of getting shut out of foreign car companies’ factories across the United States, the auto more »
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