Sanders Housing Plan Sets New Benchmark
A forty-hour-a-week minimum-wage job covers a one-bedroom apartment in only twenty-eight of the country’s 3,007 counties. This isn’t just a housing crisis. It’s a housing catastrophe. Read more at Jacobin.
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Homes Guarantee: Make Housing a Right
The Homes Guarantee, introduced in early September by the People’s Action Coalition, a network representing roughly one million progressive activists in groups spanning 30 states, would invest billions of dollars in housing infrastructure and radically…
Future of US Jobs Looks Bleak—Unions Are the Answer
Newly released numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics project that six of the ten occupations expected to have the most total job growth over the next decade pay less than $27,000 a year….
Why Is It Okay for Employers to Constantly Spy on Workers?
Congress’ debate around passing privacy legislation has largely left out workplace protections. The current debate centers “consumer privacy,” but this distinction falsely creates dual identities with different protections for you the consumer and you the…
A Shit Job for One Is a Shit Job for All
It’s essential that organizers bring lessons from the AB 5 victory (expanding legal protections to more than a million workers, including gig workers like rideshare drivers) into all sectors while uniting unions and militant workers…
A Global Green New Deal Comes First, Being Hopeful Comes After
Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, is not just a collection of reporting and columns she’s written over the last decade, but a plea to readers across…
Big Ag Is a Big Problem in Climate Struggle
If we want to have a meaningful impact on climate change we will have to confront agribusiness, which spends more on lobbying in the United States than even defense lobbyists. Read the original story at…
$1 Million a Minute: The Farming Subsidies Destroying the World
The ‘remarkable’ return of forests in Costa Rica followed the eliminating of cattle subsidies and payments for improving nature. Read more at The Guardian.
Whose Grid? Our Grid!
Chicago’s Campaign To Put Electricity Under Public Control “Electric power is a critical function in everyday life, and we can’t go without it,” Democratic Socialists tell In These Times. “Yet, it’s controlled by a private monopoly,…
Trump Admin Leading ‘Brazen’ Public Land Liquidation In Alaska
A new Center for American Progress report says the federal government’s agenda in Alaska amounts to “one of the most brazen public land liquidation efforts in U.S. history.” Read the original article at Huffington Post.