From the windswept plains outside of Chandler, Oklahoma, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has a dispatch for the Guardian on the bonds between women being formed on the grueling march: “I have bled on half of these women,” said Madeline Jacobsen, a third-grade teacher at Bell elementary. “Our feet

As the Oklahoma State Legislature passes measures to increase school funding, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian from Stroud, Oklahoma: “Today the legislature started to hear us,” the OEA said in a statement. “The passage of clean versions of the ‘ball and dice’ legislation,

Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian from Okie Family BBQ in Bristow, Oklahoma: “Y’all keep on fighting,” says Beverly Langley, 75, as she hands out water outside of her family’s smokehouse, Okie Family BBQ, outside Bristow. “Don’t give up, just keep

Late yesterday, the Oklahoma State House passed a bill that would provide funding for classroom resources. The bill would tax sales from Amazon and is estimated to provide $20 million a year in funding. However, the bill does not provide additional funding for school resources as requested by many striking