Senator Tom Harkin

New Report Reveals The Extent of For-Profit Colleges’ Corruption

Cutbacks in public technical school and university programs have created new opportunities for for-profit colleges, which have skillfully used public money to churn displaced workers and other students through their machinery, leaving them worse off than before, according to the findings of a two-year investigation of 30 for-profit colleges released this week by Sen. Tom …

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First-Ever Trans Senate Witness: ‘To Be Unemployed Is Very Devastating, Demeaning, And Demoralizing’

This morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee held a hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would extend employment protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. For the first time in the Senate’s history, a transgender witness testified on behalf of the bill. Kylar Broadus, founder of the Trans People …

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Congress Introduces Age Discrimination Bill To Fix Supreme Court’s Gross Decision

Age Discrimination Legislation Will Overturn Gross Decision Last June, the Supreme Court issued the awful and controversial age discrimination opinion in the Gross v. FBL Financial Services case. I wrote about the case at that time and predicted that it was just a matter of time until Congress fixed it with a bill that would …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.