The most impressive aspect of Bill de Blasio’s victory in yesterday’s Democratic primary for the post of New York’s mayor is its breadth. He ran first in all the boroughs, carried parts of the city ‘s most African American neighborhoods in Harlem and Brooklyn, despite the presence of a prominent African American candidate in the […]
Harold Meyerson
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Unions—Not Just for Middle-Aged White Guys Anymore
This week’s AFL-CIO convention heralds some fundamental changes for labor.
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Labor Goes Community
At the AFL-CIO’s convention, everyone is talking coalition building with like-minded organizations to forge real change for workers.
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How To Get Single-Payer Health Care, and More!
Based on Congressional Republicans’ apparently overwhelming opposition to President Obama’s proposal to strike Syrian military facilities in retaliation for the government’s use of chemical weapons, a new way to enact progressive legislation in the United States has become apparent. When he returns from Russia, the president should announce he is scrapping Obamacare and calling on […]
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Back in the Big Labor Fold
Another union drops out of the upstart Change to Win federation and returns to the AFL-CIO.
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Part-Time America
About those jobs the economy is creating—are any of them full-time?
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Strikes, Alliances, and Survival
Fast-food workers walk today, while the AFL-CIO tries to build something bigger.
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Subsidizing Poverty
Want to know the problem with enterprise zones? Then check out Sunday’s Riverside Press Enterprise, one of the best midsized newspapers in California. A story in it covers Governor Jerry Brown’s successful campaign to have the legislature put enterprise zones out of their misery. (Brown recently signed the bill abolishing the zones.) Conceived by the […]
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What Tom Friedman Doesn’t Understand About the Economy, Part 72
His latest column about the traveler website Airbnb mistakes desperation for innovation.
