Our economy, politics, and culture all need the revitalization only immigrants can provide.
Deepak Bhargava
Deepak Bhargava is a Distinguished Lecturer of Urban Studies at CUNY’s School of Labor and Urban Studies and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
Posted inPolitics
The ‘Progressive Multiplier’: How Democrats Can Defeat Trumpism
Democrats need their governing agenda to serve the additional function of expanding progressive political power.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Social Security for All
The pandemic has exposed the systemic failures of America’s inadequate welfare state. It’s time to start over.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
From Class Consciousness to Social Change
There are four fundamental elements to building the kind of economic and racial-justice movement America needs today, and they must be pursued together-indeed, they need to be understood as the same project. First, there is the work of articulating a cogent alternative to market fundamentalism, one that is deeply informed by a racial-justice analysis, because […]
Posted inFeatures
Change We Can Believe In
Strategies that rely on insider influence can’t deliver large-scale change — but mobilizations outside government can.
Posted inFeatures
Winning by Losing Well
The torrent of bad legislation coming out of Washington won’t end anytime soon: an appalling budget; a throw-grandma-from-the-train Social Security proposal; hair-raising judicial appointments; bankruptcy, environmental, and tort-“reform” bills written by and for corporate patrons; and shredding what’s left of the safety net. Here’s the trillion-dollar question for national liberal organizations and the Democratic Party: […]
Posted inSpecial Report
How Much Is Enough?
Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, posed the question of how to define an adequate standard of living. “By necessaries,” he wrote, “I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for support of life, but what ever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest […]
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Why Not a New War on Poverty?
The debate in Washington over welfare policy has taken an unfortunate turn: Republicans and many Democrats seem to be in a battle over who can be tougher on poor people rather than who can be tougher on poverty. It’s too bad, because in the early days of the Bush administration there seemed to be a […]