Eight steps city governments can take to promote good jobs.
Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier, professor of politics at Occidental College, is author of eight books, including Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America.
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Why We Need EFCA
Despite its paltry membership, the U.S. labor movement remains the nation’s most potent force for progressive change and the most effective vehicle for electing Democrats.
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Does Obama Really Have a Race Problem?
There is no doubt that working-class whites harbor resentments against blacks. But wealthy whites are more likely than working-class whites to use the race card in the voting booth.
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Why He Was In Memphis
Most Americans today know that Reverand Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, but fewer know why he was there. King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers, who were on strike to protest unsafe conditions, abusive white supervisors, and low wages — and to gain recognition for their […]
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Livable Los Angeles
In 2000, a group of environmentalists and housing advocates founded Livable Places to promote new housing construction in neighborhoods with good transit as an antidote to continuing sprawl. With more than 150 nonprofits building affordable housing in Southern California, Livable Places is unique in its dual strategy of both advocating and developing housing using a […]
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Not Just for the Gentry
We need to imagine a future in which Los Angeles is the greenest and cleanest big city in America,” Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in his April 2006 state of the city address. That’s a tall order when you consider Los Angeles’ long-standing love affair with the twin icons of suburbia — the car and the […]
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Jim Baker’s War
The war in Iraq may be a disaster for George W. Bush, but for James Baker III it has become an opportunity to seal his reputation as a statesman rather than a political fixer, which is how he’s spent much of his career. Baker is already getting kudos as a skilled diplomat who engineered a […]
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Trying Times
The capture of Saddam Hussein may have implications beyond giving President George W. Bush a modest ratings boost. It raises questions about whether the U.S. government can guarantee (or even wants to give) a fair trial to a one-time collaborator. As was true with former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, Suharto […]
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Foot Fault
Phil Knight, Nike’s founder and CEO, just lost a major court battle over his company’s allegedly misleading ads about conditions in its overseas factories. Then Nike agreed to pay a $1.5 million settlement to what the media called a “worker rights” group that monitors sweatshops. So how did Knight and Nike escape more or less […]
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Presidential Legacy
President George W. Bush was an affirmative-action beneficiary, at Yale University and then atHarvard Business School. Now he wants the University of Michigan to end itspolicy of considering applicants’ race, among other factors, inadmitting students. According to Bush, this approach “amounts to aquota system that unfairly rewards or penalizes prospective students based ontheir race.” Bush […]
