Today on TAP: We keep winning the arguments. Can we win the politics?
New Deal
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Build, Baby, Build
Today on TAP: Kamala’s commitment to the care economy is great, but she needs to commit to the construction economy as well.
Posted inPolitics
The Speech FDR Would Give
As economic royalists ally with Trump, we have already seen an example of a rhetorical counter that tells it like it is.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
American Climate Corps to Focus on Next-Generation Workers
The Biden administration’s workforce development initiative aims to boost green employment options.
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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 inEconomic Policy
Investing in Disinvested America
The Biden administration’s manufacturing subsidies are disproportionately flowing to red states and districts.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Forgotten Left Economics Tradition
In the Progressive and New Deal eras, there was a markedly different response to rising prices, and a different usage of economic theory.
Posted inBooks
Wrestling With the New Deal
The programs Roosevelt put together may not have met a Platonic ideal of modern progress, but they saved American democracy itself.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A New Deal Jobs Program Returns in Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
One provision of the American Jobs Plan would devote $10 billion to creating a Civilian Climate Corps.
Posted inPolitics
An Open Letter to Joe Biden
Two descendants of the architects of the New Deal ask the potential incoming president to be bolder than FDR on jobs.
