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They call it resilience. We call it survival. But what we’re really doing is building something else entirely. Something they ...
A year after the Supreme Court greenlit crackdowns on people living without shelter, homelessness has only gotten worse.
Last October, after months of hard work, we announced that we were forming a union with the Teamsters. It was exhilarating ...
This week, the D.C. Council voted to pause a wage increase related to Initiative 82, the 2022 ballot measure that ...
Labor Day 2020 comes at a time of unprecedented racial, political, and economic upheaval in the United States. Earlier this summer, tens of thousands of workers nationwide walked off their jobs and ...
As President Trump takes office, his Republican allies in Congress are already hard at work readying his legislative agenda. Trump campaigned on a promise to lower costs for Americans. But so far, the ...
The New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The editorial raised a serious question: what if instead of being a ...
Increasing taxes on high income earners helped raise revenue without hampering the wealth of the millionaire class in Massachusetts and Washington, according to a new policy brief from the Institute ...
Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes. Including the biggest personal fortune of them all, the ...
We denizens of the 21st century have become somewhat accustomed — inured might be the better word — to the murderous mass violence of modern warfare. We shouldn’t find that at all surprising. The 20th ...