When the Supreme Court ruled that unions could not collect dues from the home-care workers they represent, the justices set workers and their clients on a course that could harm them both.
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Still Nader After All These Years
It is heartening that Nader, at age 80, is still biased towards hope more than cynicism.
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Can Private Capital Save Public Housing? (Tenants Have Their Doubts)
It could be more cost-effective to just appropriate more direct funds to the program and keep it in the public sector, but Congress is not about to do so.
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Expert: U.S. Police Training in Use of Deadly Force Woefully Inadequate
In U.S. police department budgets, most funding goes to salaries and equipment, and virtually nothing to training. It’s a deadly formula, says Maria Haberfeld of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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How a Widely Beloved Tax Deduction Really Just Benefits the Well-Off and Exacerbates Inequality
National opinion polls show a majority of Americans support the mortgage interest deduction. Yet most U.S. homeowners receive very little benefit from it.
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What Judges Know: The Fault for Underfunded Pensions Lies With Politicians, Not Workers
We can’t count on politicians to stick to their word. It’s promising that judges are forcing them to.
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Thirsty Detroiters Demand End to Water Shut-Offs
Surrounded by the Great Lakes, home to 20 percent of the world’s fresh water, Detroit faces a crisis that is not only paradoxical; it’s complicated.
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Can Liberalism Survive the Obama Presidency? (Yes, It Can.)
If Obama is a transformative figure, it isn’t in the ideological way he seemed after his election.
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Why Democrats Need to Take Sides in America’s Class War
Straddling class divisions is so last century. There’s a new base in town, and it includes a lot of people who used to be middle-class but aren’t anymore.
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This Is What Happened When I Took the MTA Bus to Pick Up Food Stamps
A response to a much-chattered-about article by an upper-middle-class white woman who was appalled to find herself judged when she applied for food stamps.
