Economy

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Rent Stabilization Victory in Maryland

Landmark bill shows how communities can fight the housing crisis By Mel Buer On July 18, the Montgomery County Council passed a landmark rent stabilization bill, intending to curb predatory landlord practices in the county….


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Tenants Push for Federal Rent Control

Leading economists agree: “People are suffering.” By Jake Johnson More than 30 U.S. economists have signed a letter expressing support for strong federal tenant protections and rent control as housing costs remain sky-high, even amid…


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“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers

… and Isn’t Intelligent. By Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender The gold rush around so-called “generative artificial intelligence” (AI) tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion has been characterized by breathless predictions that these technologies…







No Action on Climate? Blame Big Oil

By Linda McQuaig With outright climate denialism largely be­hind us, we keep moving on through more sophisticated stages of climate inaction. Currently, even as large swaths of North America became engulfed in wildfire smoke, we…