Many low-income students will lose access to academic opportunities and recreational activities.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Public Subsidies to Sports Stadiums Aren’t Going Away
A Tempe, Arizona, vote showed cities can decline to fund millionaires’ arenas—but some municipalities still shower wealthy teams with taxpayer dollars.
Posted inPolitics
From the Exonerated Five to the New York City Council
Yusef Salaam campaigned on economic justice and housing reform.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
How New York’s Democratic Socialists Brought Unions Around to Public Renewables
State lawmakers worked hard to convince utilities and construction union members that they would not end up on the chopping block.
Posted inHousing
New York Considers Community Land Trusts
Nonprofit developers are working to get first dibs on transforming multifamily housing developments into real options for rent-burdened New Yorkers.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Our Two-Tiered Justice System and the Trump Indictment
Corporate crime enforcement in America has been pathetic for decades. One prosecution of a guy screaming to be prosecuted doesn’t change that.
Posted inTransportation
Mass Transit Hangs Off Eroding Fiscal Cliffs
A short-term federal budget fix might buy more time to figure out what’s next.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Rich Bank Dumb Bank
Was Signature, the other bank in the Great Panic of 2023, a failure or a patsy?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Government Does a Bad Job Assessing Toxic Exposures
The history of the captured federal agencies that reassure the public after chemical disasters should give East Palestine residents pause.