With housing costs gobbling up wage increases for union members and almost everyone else, labor must prioritize housing affordability.
Cities & Communities
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California’s Bullet Train Goes Off the Rails
Governor Gavin Newsom decides to slow down what could have been one of the country’s most transformative transportation infrastructure projects.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Amazon and America’s Real Divide
The company’s HQ2 will only widen the growing inequality of place.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Challenges to Corporate Power Are on the BallotÂ
Voters in several states consider initiatives on progressive measures that major corporations are working hard to defeat.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Challenges to Corporate Power Are on the BallotÂ
Voters in several states consider initiatives on progressive measures that major corporations are working hard to defeat.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Mass Transit in the Sun Belt
If you build it, they will come—but not if the system is skimpy and unreliable.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Rough Roads Ahead if California Voters Repeal Their Gas Tax
Beyond jeopardizing road repairs and mass transit, Prop. 6 would strike at the very nature of governance itself in the Golden State.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Sometimes It’s Lonely Being Liberal
At an “underground” watering hole in Pocahontas, Iowa—they serve fair-trade coffee, not homemade whiskey—hope grows for the tiny town’s left-wing minority.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Blackstone Spends Huge to Kill California Rent Control
Much of the $65 million campaign against the state’s rent-control initiative comes from giant private equity firms and real-estate investment trusts.
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Hurricane Sandy and the Inequalities of Resilience in New York
With the recovery from Hurricane Florence gearing up in the Carolinas, the post-Sandy experiences of one section of New York provide important clues about how low-income residents and people of color fare after natural disasters.
