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.
Economy
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…
Health Insurance Companies Are Useless— Get Rid of Them
Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts were among only four Democratic presidential candidates who advocated abolishing private health insurance during the first round of debates. Read more at the Los Angeles…
Big Data’s Threat to Democracy
Our data doesn’t really belong to us, it belongs to the commons. Read the original story on Asia Times.
A Young Mayor Makes the Case for a Guaranteed Income
Interview with Michael Tubbs, the 29-year-old mayor of Stockton, California. Read the original story at The Nation.
Congressional Report Shows Broad Benefits from Higher Minimum Wage
A new Congressional Budget Office report finds that the benefits to low wage workers of a $15 minimum wage far exceed the costs. Read the original article at Common Dreams.
Reining In Drug Profiteers
Replace patent monopolies with direct public funding for drug research. Read the original article on Truthout.
Big Banks Are Divesting From Private Prisons, Thanks to Anti-ICE Activism
As Trump has escalated his anti-immigrant policies, the prison divestment movement has become a broad coalition. Read the original article on Truthout.