The strike has put 1 percent of the city’s workforce on the picket lines, and they want more than higher pay and smaller class sizes—they want a better life for their communities.
Cities & Communities
Posted inEconomic Policy
Dynamic Inclusive Money for a Dynamic Inclusive Economy
A New York assemblyman proposes a new, statewide, public payment system that could uplift downtrodden communities.
Posted inWorking in America
Hard Lessons From the Hard Rock Hotel Collapse
In an industry with lax enforcement of safety standards and where the companies in charge are let off the hook, worker deaths are all too common.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Create a Public Option for Simple Banking
Under current authority, the post office can expand its financial services options. A major postal workers union even has it in their bargaining contract.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Disrupting Democracy: When Big Tech Takes Over a City
Google partner Sidewalk Labs wants to remake the Toronto waterfront as a privately run digital development. It may really be a digital dystopia.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Uber Goes Back to Basics: Violating the Law
By announcing it would not comply with a California law reclassifying its workers as employees, Uber is returning to the company’s time-honored tradition as a scofflaw.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
New Jersey Moves to Rein In Wasteful Tax Breaks for Businesses
Inspired by a recent Kansas-Missouri pact, Garden State lawmakers may warm to reforms that scale back competition with New York and Pennsylvania over jobs.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
When Cities Turn to Uber, Instead of Buses and Trains
Some money-losing transit districts shift to ridesharing—but the cost for that may prove even greater.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
When It Comes to Transportation Infrastructure, No Bill Is Better Than a Bad Bill
Why the failure to come up with a plan to revitalize the country’s infrastructure could force Washington to abandon funneling money into the auto-centric past and come up with a dynamic program of 21st-century solutions.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
#WeAreAllBaltimore
As The Baltimore Sun wrote, it’s better to have a few rats than to be one.
