A lot is at stake for the working class in this election.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Welfare State Fails the Poor
A bureaucratic paper chase undermines compassion and practical help for the needy, while Wall Street gets whatever it wants. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Municipal Broadband Solution
A federal affordable internet program is ending. But muni-owned broadband networks have figured out how to deliver affordable high-speed internet access themselves.
Posted inEducation in America
New York City’s Last Dictatorship
After 20 years, New York reconsiders mayoral control of its education system.
Posted inTAP
America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal
Today on TAP: Lawyers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon say the Court erred in 1937 by letting workers have rights on the job.
Posted inWorking in America
What (Not Who) Will Follow Mary Kay Henry?
The groundbreaking president of SEIU is stepping down, at a time when the possibilities for organizing American workers may be rising.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Breaking a Lifeline to the Internet
A popular federal program helps people with few resources stay connected—but its funding is running out.
Posted inTAP
Second-Term Bidenomics
Today on TAP: When it comes to making the rich fund affordable child care and long-term Social Security, Bernie Sanders has a suggestion.
Posted inEducation in America
Neoliberalism and Education
A conversation between Robert Kuttner and Cathie Martin
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Project Censored Top 10 Stories: Corporate Abuse and Environmental Harm Dominate
The pattern signals a deeper truth: our economics and the survival of our species are deeply at odds.