The vice-presidential nominee did little as a state and local prosecutor as Uber and Lyft rose to prominence. Now California wants to force drivers to be treated as employees, and Harris appears to be on board—for now.
Steven Hill
Steven Hill (www.Steven-Hill.com) is a San Francisco–based journalist and author of Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers and Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Ridesharing Versus Public Transit
How Uber and Lyft tend to widen disparities of race and class in urban transportation systems
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Uber: The Road Not Taken
Why Uber’s business model keeps bleeding money—and how it might yet right itself as a useful but less grandiose venture
Posted inEconomic Policy
How to Fix Social Security? Expand It
Proposals abound to overhaul the Social Security system via means-testing, raising the retirement age, or price adjustments. But the real solution to a fairer, more stable retirement system is Social Security expansion.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Evictions and Conversions: The Dark Side of Airbnb
How the popular matching company facilitates landlord conversion of entire rental buildings to de facto hotels.
Posted inAmerica and the World
A More Perfect European Union
David Cameron’s speech has its fair share of detractors, but it should be embraced as an impetus to take Europe’s governance to the next level.
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Action Potential
The Bush administration proclaims that it is bringing democracy to Iraq, yet the lack of it at home is in evidence everywhere. State reformers are currently waging important battles for fair implementation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) — the federal response to deficiencies unmasked by the chaotic 2000 presidential election — but HAVA […]
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Fixing Elections
The spoiler dilemma of Ralph Nader’s candidacy is back, like the hockey-masked villain from a Friday the 13th horror movie that refuses to die. And unfortunately, Democratic Party leaders have done little over the past four years to change the outcome of this movie. What could Democrats have done? As advocated by the likes of […]
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Who’s Right Now?
Several months ago, American journals — mainstream and progressive both — were filled with alarm about the rise of the far right in Europe. But recent election results in Germany, Sweden, Austria and elsewhere make clear that the panic button was pushed prematurely. In Germany, the coalition of Social Democrats and the Greens eked out […]