Our staff writer reviews 2023 and her work.
Lee Harris
Lee Harris is a staff writer at The American Prospect. In 2020, she co-founded New York Focus, an investigative news site on New York politics. Prior to that, she was editor of the independent newspaper at the University of Chicago.
Posted inWorking in America
Hard Times in the Back Yard
Bailed-out major airlines have outsourced ground work to subcontractors. Injuries and fatalities on the tarmac are taking off.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Washington Tweaks How It Prices the Future
An updated document from the Office of Management and Budget will make it easier to enact regulations.
Posted inWorking in America
How Autoworkers’ Democratic Tactics Reversed a Humiliating Loss
As part of the UAW’s tentative agreement with Stellantis, an idled factory in Belvidere, Illinois, will restart production.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
After Historic Subsidies, Hydrogen Giants Threaten Regulations Could Throttle Industry
A Clinton-era hydrogen company, Plug Power, fights to embed its business model in the tax code.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Solar Could Become a Model for Sectoral Bargaining
A new deal between the electricians, laborers, and operating engineers aims to set national standards for solar work.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Private Equity Intensifies Rollups of HVAC Installers
A report finds that corporate consolidation, an aging workforce, and high costs could keep heat pumps, a key technology of the Inflation Reduction Act, out of reach.
Posted inEconomic Policy
U.S. and EU Struggle to Form Green Steel Club
The troubled transatlantic trade deal may expose the limits of Washington’s green ‘friendshoring’ agenda.
Posted inWorking in America
GM Battery Workers Will Be Union
The union has secured that workers at General Motors’ joint-venture battery plants will be covered under the Big Three master agreement. It’s a major step in a just transition.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Metal From Seawater
A startup aims to restore American magnesium production.