Today on TAP: The price-gouging in affordable housing units has nothing to do with other sources of inflation.
Massachusetts
Posted inEconomic Policy
We Need to Talk About Profits
Economists routinely ignore a fundamental set of data about the economy.
Posted inWorking in America
Is Washington State About to Deprive Its Gig Drivers of Basic Rights?
A bill quietly sailing through the legislature could do just that.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rollups: All Monopolies Are Local
How one supermarket chain, Stop & Shop, abuses property transfers to frustrate competition
Posted inHousing
Polite, Legal, and Unacknowledged: The Devastating Biases of Well-Heeled Suburbia
Build Back Better highlights how upper-income whites engage in discrimination every bit as harmful as that ascribed to working-class whites. It also aims to stop it.
Posted inTAP
Reverberations From Charlie Baker’s Exit
Today on TAP: Will a progressive Democrat at last become governor of the bluest state? Will Baker challenge Elizabeth Warren?
Posted inWorking in America
The Bus Driver Strikes
After a long slump, more drivers are winning the right to collective bargaining. Now, the threat of privatization looms.
Posted inPolitics
An Election Day Test for Post-Trump Democrats
Socialist cities and tenuous blue states in today’s elections
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Silver Lining in the Story of Private Equity Killing the Press
The Provincetown Independent reminds us what a local paper is supposed to look like.
Posted inPolitics
Charting the Future in Boston
Can two city councilors avoid partisan sniping and stay focused on the issues in the race for mayor?