Las Vegas unions reel from a right-wing onslaught, grad students nationwide fight to unionize, and the $15 minimum gains momentum in California.Â
Justin Miller
Justin Miller covers politics and state government for the Texas Observer. He is a former Prospect writing fellow, and has also written for The Intercept, The New Republic, and In These Times. Follow @by_jmiller
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The Labor Prospect: Dems Debate
Democrats talk trade and paid leave, California tackles wage theft, and why $15 an hour may no longer be enough.Â
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Can Campaign Finance Be Reformed From the Bottom Up?
Despite hostile courts, can our campaign-finance system be reformed from the bottom up?
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This Just In: We Are Officially in a New Gilded Age
Yesterday, The New York Times dropped an investigative bombshell that confirmed in detail what most of us already know: The ultra-rich are in control of our electoral process. As the Times reports, just 158 families have contributed nearly half of all the money raised so far for the numerous presidential campaigns. “Not since before Watergate,” […]
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On Voting Rights, Carson is Actually the Sane Republican
Yesterday, at a campaign event in Iowa Republican contender Jeb Bush said he didn’t think the Voting Rights Act-a cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement-should be reauthorized by Congress after the conservative Supreme Court gutted it in 2013. Here’s exactly what he had to say: ”If it’s to reauthorize it to continue to provide regulations […]
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Searching for Worker Voices at the White House
A recent labor summit highlighted the administration’s uneven record on workers’ rights. Â
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The Labor Prospect: Minding Minimums
Cuomo’s new minimum wage plan hits a snag, the NEA endorses Hillary, and Uber drivers are one step closer to collective bargaining in Seattle.Â
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Bernie Wants to Get Money Out of Politics. So Where’s His Plan?
While Bernie isn’t short on rhetoric about getting money out of politics, he remains curiously short on specifics. For the past couple months, I’ve been chronicling the emerging debate over the role of money in politics and the increased calls for campaign-finance reform within the Democratic field. The most notable development in the political discourse […]
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If Small Donors Were Amplified, Bernie Would Be the Frontrunner
Under public-financing plans proposed by candidates like Clinton, Bernie’s grassroots fundraising would put him over the top.
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O’Malley Follows Clinton with a Money-in-Politics Plan of His Own
Today, former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential contender Martin O’Malley unveiled his detailed plan to limit the rampant role of money in politics. Like Hillary Clinton, who released her plan a couple weeks ago, campaign-finance reform advocates widely applaud O’Malley’s ambitious plan. (It’s worth noting that Bernie Sanders has yet to release a specific money-in-politics […]
