Wyoming, Michigan

Wyoming is a primary southwestern suburb of Grand Rapids. A noteworthy element of this territory is the watchful mixing of modern day life with nature, as manifested in the areas of Palmer Park, Buck Creek Nature Area and Lamar Park – all in the midst of private neighborhoods. Another element of this city incorporates a part of 28th Street from Division Avenue to Grandville. It is a shopping paradise, with Roger’s Plaza, the Rogers Plaza Town Center and Rogers Department Store.What Happened to Workers’ Ed? What Happened to Workers’ Ed? As organized labor searches for a viable strategy to endure and grow, its limited footholds in American higher education are coming loose. Worker-organizers taking part in an event on “Labor Solidarity Across Borders,” hosted by the UCLA Labor Center, December 2014 (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung / Flickr)

The downtown office of the UCLA Labor Center sits on the northwest edge of MacArthur Park, where geese mingle amid the tents of homeless people. It is late fall, and Victor Narro, the downtown office director and a law professor, is inside printing reports written by his students about how to regulate and decriminalize the city’s extensive informal economy of sidewalk and street vending. Between 12,000 and 20,000 Angelenos, predominately immigrants from Central