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Economic PolicyNovember 21, 2007
Deal Breakers
Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait’s The Big Con.
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April 6, 2006
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HistoryFebruary 16, 2006
Labor Pains
Robert Fitch’s Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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GovernmentDecember 18, 2003
Texas, Inc.
Taking privatization to extremes, a new law ends the public sector as we knew it.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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October 23, 2003
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Higher EducationSeptember 22, 2003
Yale Workers Win
Late last week, Yale clerical and maintenance workers who had been striking for three weeks won a contract that will transform the standard of living of clerical workers at the university, as wel
Kim Phillips-Fein
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GovernmentJuly 17, 2003
…and the Poor Get Poorer
Collateral damage mounts in Bush’s ideological war on the welfare state.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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CitiesDecember 12, 2002
A New New Deal?
The same week that New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his plans to close eight city firehouses, Mike Wallace, John Jay College professor and bard of New York, held a conference on “Ne
Kim Phillips-Fein
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GovernmentNovember 7, 2002
The Education of Jessica Rivera
Trading in their books for buckets, welfare recipients learn “responsibility.”
Kim Phillips-Fein
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PoliticsAugust 9, 2001
Exchange
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