For Labor Day, a call for a new union strategy from three prominent workers’ advocates.
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Posted inWorking in America
What Was the Life of This Guest Worker Worth?
While Washington state agencies reduce farmworker pay and find employers faultless for a death in the fields, Trump and congressional Republicans back proposals to turn farmworking into permanent indentured servitude.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Want to Expand the Economy? Tax the Rich!
If Democrats want to win big in November, they must do more than just renounce trickle-down economics. They need to replace it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Demonizing the IRS to Protect Tax Evaders
Weakening tax enforcement combined with new complexity invites evasion and massive illicit tax savings for the rich.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Curse of Stock Buybacks
For the past three decades, the overriding priority of American corporations has been paying their shareholders. That’s just what they’ve done with their tax cut.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Democrats’ Response
Far from giving Republicans bragging rights, the Tax Act presents Democrats with a potent line of attack. But can they stay united when they put forth their own alternatives?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Broad Support for Taxing the Wealthy
Why Democrats should run on rolling back the tax cut and raising taxes on the rich
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Talking Taxes with the Voters
The more people learn about the Tax Act, the less they like it.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Linking Commuter Rail to Jobs, Housing, and Opportunity in Eastern Massachusetts
Developers have a laser-like focus on projects in Boston and its inner suburbs while ignoring the rich potential of smaller cities that have decades-old rail connections to the state capital.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Sharing the Tech Wealth
Tech jobs tend to cluster geographically. Can we spread the benefits around?
