Even before COVID-19, aides caring for elderly and disabled people in nursing homes often were overworked and underpaid, doing everything from changing linens to helping residents eat to physically rotating them to prevent bed sores.

Ashley Ford often was one of four aides for as many as 42 residents at the Indiana nursing home where she’s worked since early 2019. She sometimes skipped breaks when work got busy so she wouldn’t leave patients waiting.

“There’s just not enough time to do everyth

The university moved to prolong negotiations, redefine potential union membership, and promote internal changes that organizers said failed to take staff members’ voices into account.

Around a third of all potential members of the WAMU content staff’s union could be excluded from voting for, and becoming a part of, the union they helped organize.

Just days before this move was announced by the university, union organizers sent a letter to the AU Board of Trustees calling on them to conduct a f

American University Student Government has an annual budget of over half a million dollars. Every student pays an activity fee of $88.50 to fund clubs, student media and AUSG.

Half of these funds go to AUSG’s staff and activities, which include adjacent organizations like the Kennedy Political Union and the Women’s Initiative. This $570,000 is designed to finance speaker fees and community events.

The organizations also use student money for a number of purchases, such as internal merchandise

The following is an abridged version of this semester’s episode of Ripped From the Wall, AWOL’s investigative news podcast. To listen to the full version of the story, including additional interviews and narration, you can listen to the audio file below, find it on Spotify, or download it wherever you find podcasts.

After a summer of protests condemning police brutality and demanding accountability and transparency from law enforcement, students are calling on the American University Police Dep

Advocates call on the Attorney General to rule the shooting “unjustified.” Results of an external review are expected to be released soon.

Thirteen years after police shot and killed an 18-year-old in Maine, an independent review board has been tasked by the state attorney general with a new investigation into whether the shooting was justified.

New information released in a July press conference held by the Lincoln County district attorney and local advocates raised questions about the legiti

Cleveland-based reggae musician David Smeltz says he first started using alcohol and drugs heavily while touring in the mid-1980s.


“A lot of musicians, including myself, were … closet dope fiends and alcoholics,” said Smeltz. He said he used “alcohol, heroin, crack cocaine, all sorts of pills … anything that made me feel good.”


Smeltz has written on his blog that “it wasn’t until alcohol and dope stopped working for me and started working against me that I became uncomfortable enough to