The Best of the Week’s News

• Lyft drivers speak out against wage theft on interstate trips.
   
• Fed up with debt collection calls? So is Elizabeth Warren, but it’s only going to get worse. 
   
• Sorry, Trump, ”retroactive ethics waivers” aren’t a thing. 
   
• Why dropping out of the Paris climate deal is pointless. 

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

• Donald Trump made James Comey so uneasy that he pulled the ol’ curtain camouflage trick. 
   
• Florida legislators are making bank off private education
   
• Bad seeds? The science of child psychopaths
   
• Panama Papers muckraker locked out of Facebook for alleging corruption by the PM of Malta.

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

• The myth of “school choice” for New York City kids of color
   
• Class Warfare: TrumpCare slashes health care for the poor to fund tax cuts for the rich
   
• Did these 24 vulnerable Republicans sign their own pink slips by voting for TrumpCare?
   
• Trump’s FDA doesn’t want you to know what you’re eating

The Sidney Hillman Foundation is very proud to announce the winners of the 2017 Hillman Prizes for Journalism and the 2017 George Barrett Award for Public Interest Law:

• Book
  • Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Crown. 
• Newspaper 
  • David Fahrenthold, For reporting on the Trump Foundation and 2016 presidential election, The Washington Post.
• Magazine 
  • Nikole Hannah-Jones, “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,” New York Times Magazine.
• Broadcast
  • Brendan Keefe, “Dying For Help: Fixing The Nation’s Emergency Response System,” WXIA-TV, Atlanta.
• Web
  • Jamie Kalven, “Code of Silence,” The Intercept.
• Opinion & Analysis
  • Adele M. Stan, for outstanding commentary on the 2016 election, The American Prospect.
• George Barrett Award for Public Interest Law
  • Penda Hair, Legal Director, Forward Justice

Ceremony will be Tuesday, May 9th in NYC. RSVP here