From Albuquerque to Idaho, Americans voted to give a raise to the lowest paid and refused to strip workers of their rights.
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It’s Wrong to Think Big Money Lost Last Night
It’s not about the spending, but the giving.
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Segregation Forever?
On the ultimate failure of the Fair Housing Act
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Your Young Adult Employment Report for October 2012
The retail industry leading the way is not a sign of a robust recovery.
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Closing the Jobs Gap Requires Much Bigger Thinking
Even if we enter another boom comparable to the Clinton years, it will still take four more years to get back to where we were in 2006.
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Why Should Government Respond Differently to Natural vs. Economic Disasters?
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, you won’t hear public officials saying that devastated towns should pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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Extreme Partisanship: Preserver of our Democracy
No, we can’t all just get along—and that’s a good thing.
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The Subversion of Direct Democracy
More on the “initiative industrial complex” in California
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Direct Democracy, for Billionaires
In a classic case of unintended consequences, these mechanisms for popular power are routinely used by the rich to change state laws.
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Why Schumer Is (Mostly) Right on Taxes
The Senator from New York counters conservative “Happy Talk”.