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Posted inEducation in America
Are Endowments Damaging Colleges and Universities?
Endowments are supposed to help institutions weather periods of financial difficulty. Instead, they’ve become a source of it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Progressive Policing Requires a Well-Funded War on Corporate Crime
Under Reagan, the feds paid cities to make drug busts. Under Biden, the feds should pay cities to crack down on wage theft.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Using Tax Policy to Promote Rural Development
We could shift the failed tax preference for opportunity zones into a targeted strategy to create more jobs for rural America.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Pandemic Recovery in a Plutonomy
The optimistic case for economic growth masks who those benefits might be reserved for. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for January 5, 2021.
Posted inEducation in America
Overcoming Political Polarization
Federal funding of education is one key strategy.
Posted inBooks
The Power of Ideas and the Idea of Power
The progressives won the debate about whether there is a power elite. Now they need to keep the corporate elite from destroying what’s left of our democracy.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Beyond the Wasteland
New strategies for pivoting from the pandemic crisis to a recovery built on economic justice
