Recovery gets complicated by uneven insurance coverage, haphazard emergency programs, and a reluctance to admit that rebuilding in vulnerable places is too risky.
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Posted inTAP
International Finance Capital Rebels Against British … Tax Cuts for the Rich?
Today on TAP: Bankers shoot down the Conservative Party budget plan.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Reinvestment Movement vs. the Bankers
David is very nimble, but Goliath is more powerful than ever.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Don’t You Forget About ‘Abbott Elementary’
The show that rejuvenated the network sitcom is a quietly subversive commentary on class politics.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
How the Inflation Reduction Act Attacks Diesel Pollution
It’s a starting point to deal with an issue that disproportionately impacts marginalized communities.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Shareholders Steer McDonald’s Into Pointless Equity Audit
The burger giant is following the lead of other companies, but the track record of ‘civil rights audits’ is poor.
Posted inPolitics
Heidi Heitkamp Lobbies Against a Democratic FCC
The former Democratic senator is running misleading ads claiming that FCC nominee Gigi Sohn would be bad for rural America.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Democrats Need to Fix Rural Economies—and Get the Credit for It
Geographic inequality is one of the forces tearing our democracy apart, but it’s one that we can fix.
Posted inHousing
The Great Housing Inflation as a Long-Term Policy Failure
High prices of homes and rental apartments have very little to do with today’s general inflation, but reflect decades of perverse policies that hurt both renters and aspiring homeowners.
Posted inEducation in America
The Failure of Financialized Higher Ed
Big endowments and big money have made administrators more accountable to financiers than their own universities.