The campus anti-sweatshop movement is the first since the campaign against apartheid. Even better, it’s closely linked to the labor movement—and it’s beginning to bear fruit.
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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Housing Policy’s Moment of Truth
In Washington these days, HUD is about as popular as mosquitoes. But there’s a way to make housing more affordable without the old bureaucracy.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Moving From the ‘Hood: The Mixed Success of Integrating Suburbia
In theory, dispersing the poor to better suburban schools, jobs, and housing was a bipartisan alternative to housing projects and ghetto unemployment. But, surprise, nobody wanted them in the neighborhood.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Seismic Stimulus: The California Quake’s Creative Destruction
The earth literally had to move to jolt Congress into passing a stiumulus package — and to lift California out of recession.
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Wild Pitch
For baseball players and fans, winter is the “off-season.” But for team owners and their executives, it is the season for deal making. As most fans are looking back on another season of what might have been (except for New York Yankee fans, who get to savor another World Series victory), the deal makers are […]
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Affordable Housing: Lessons from Canada
How Canada manages to build scandal-free nonprofit housing
