Today on TAP: Robert Kuttner speaks with study author Robert Pollin
California
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California’s Taxes: The Only Ones Suited for the 21st Century
Today on TAP: The Golden State continues to levy the most progressive taxes in the nation
Posted inTransportation
Los Angeles Turns Toward Free Fares
How far a fareless public-transit program goes will depend on a pilot program debuting in August.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Builder and Breaker
Eli Broad put his stamp on Los Angeles culture—and his foot down on its public schools.
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Biden and Walsh: To the Rescue of Gig Workers
Today on TAP: David Weil to the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division?
Posted inThe Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
Helping the Powerless Build Power
Oral histories of five activists who’ve worked in and for worker centers
Posted inThe Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
Embracing and Resisting: The Variable Relationships Between Worker Centers and Unions
In some cities, the two kinds of worker organizations frequently collaborate. In other cities, not so much.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Berkeley School
In recent years, economics has grown more concerned about inequality and how to fix it. The instigators of this epochal progressive shift ply their trade at UC Berkeley.
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Gavin Newsom Has Never Been More Powerful, or More Vulnerable
The California governor is facing a recall election at the same time that he’s making numerous appointments to fill seats emptied by Vice President Harris and others.
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The Crisis in State Governments Isn’t the Budgets, It’s the Governance
Statewide tax revenue paints a better-than-expected picture, but the political climate says something else.