The legendary protests of the World Trade Organization in 1999 can serve as a model for a deeply needed labor/environmental coalition for climate justice.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Payday Lenders Suffer Rare Attack of Honesty
In Arizona, the industry has a bill that would block minimum wage increases, because when people don’t have money, they need short-term loans.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Billionaire Class Created Their Own Wealth Tax. It Failed.
The folly of voluntary charity as a substitute for government tax and transfer policies is most evident in the story of the Giving Pledge.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Colorado Fails on Schools, Transportation Funding
Voters reject a constitutional amendment that would have ended tax refunds for state residents and re-directed those dollars to sectors in need of a fiscal infusion.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Charitarian Patriotism
Investor, philanthropist, and Patriotic Millionaires founding member Lawrence Benenson discusses solutions to pressing American political and economic inequity.
Posted inPolitics
Colorado May Be Cool, but Its Roads and Schools Are Meh
Voters can’t fathom why a booming state doesn’t have great highways, transit, and public education—and in November, they’ll have a chance to fix them.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Marijuana Legalization Plan Shows Sanders Is No Socialist
His proposal seeks to create a class of marijuana small-business owners, rather than nationalizing the industry and forwarding the benefits to victims of marijuana prohibition.
Posted inTAP
How a Wealth Tax Would Increase—Not Decrease—Investment
Today on TAP: As wealth has concentrated, investment has declined
Posted inDay One Agenda
Create a More Progressive Tax Policy
Congress writes the laws, but the IRS interprets them, and they can do so in ways that make the system more fair.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Government Reports on Aging, Inequality Tell Us What We Already Know
Inequality widens in old age, and life expectancy wanes for poorer seniors.
