Private water companies want to use the infrastructure bill to accelerate privatization. Why is Tammy Duckworth carrying water for them?
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Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Structural Violence of Municipal Hoarding
High-wealth communities segregate and protect their treasure from municipal redistribution.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Controlling the Viral Spread of Unemployment With a Job Guarantee
Job loss is an epidemic, and the federal government has the cure.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
No Justice. No Peace.
Underlying the nationwide protests for Black lives is the racial wealth gap.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How to Start Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
An obscure add-on charge for mortgages has put homeownership out of reach, disproportionately for Black Americans.
Posted inPolitics
Joe Biden’s Friend From JPMorgan Chase
Peter Scher, a Biden ally tipped as a possible high-level official in his White House, lays bare the difficulties of reconciling progressive populism and corporate-friendly technocracy.
Posted inBooks
To Be Studied, or Pitied?
Two books try to understand the other America, and stumble along the way.
Posted inCoronavirus
The Dire Economic Plight of College Students
Ineligible for most federal relief and with no jobs to graduate into, young people are on the brink of crisis.
Posted inWorking in America
Can Unions Surge in Post-Pandemic America?
Millions of generally ignored workers are now hailed as heroes. But it will take millennial-led militance to translate this newfound esteem into palpable gains.
Posted inWorking in America
It’s Workers Who Should Determine When Their Workplace Is Safe
States must create health and safety councils—one way that ‘essential’ workers can begin to gain one essential they lack: power.