A pair of legal battles will help determine how far states will go to implement their climate laws.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Best of the Prospect 2015
The Prospect weighed in on 2015’s tumultuous debates over economic inequality, prison reform, campus sexual assault, and more. Here are some of our favorite stories from 2015.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Climate Accord Mobilizes Health Industry
The Paris climate accord has mobilized the health-care sector and will have sweeping impacts on public health.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Report: Nation’s Wealth Gap Wider Than Believed
Over the past few months, Bernie Sanders has repeatedly declared that the top one-tenth of 1 percent of U.S. earners own nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That claim has drawn the skeptical scrutiny of PolitiFact, which attributed it to a study by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman late last year. PolitiFact’s […]
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Can Cities Take the Lead on Climate Change?
As national efforts heading into the Paris summit fall short of averting catastrophic warming, how far cities can go to close the gap is hard to know.
Posted inEducation in America
Students Nationwide to March for Debt Relief and a $15 Minimum on Campus
Inspired by Bernie Sanders’s call for a million students to march on Washington, thousands of students, faculty, and workers are demanding debt cancellation and $15 minimum wage on campus.
Posted inWorking in America
Labor and Climate Groups Blast TPP as Full Text is Released
The United States Trade Representative released the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership today, one month after negotiators finalized the massive 12-nation pact in Atlanta. The release kicks off a 90-day window before President Obama can sign the deal and turn it over to Congress for approval. In a statement released today on Medium, Obama […]
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Keystone Effect
Just hours after the White House indicated it would make a decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline by the end of Obama’s second term, TransCanada made a sharp left on its years-long effort to quickly secure approval. Perhaps sensing that the Obama administration was poised to kill the project (turns out, they were probably right), […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Fed Will Continue to Support the Recovery—But For How Long?
This afternoon, the Federal Reserve announced that it will keep interest rates near zero for the time being, maintaining its critical support for the sluggish economic recovery. The decision came as a surprise to many observers on Wall Street, including analysts at Citigroup, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase, who expected a rate hike to […]
Posted inWorking in America
Why the DOL’s New Overtime Rule is Such a Big Deal
As many as 15 million workers may soon be eligible for overtime protection for the first time in decades.
