Economy
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Policy
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Don’t wet your bed. Organize!
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Labor
Will the UAW Picket Trump’s Rally in Detroit? Will the UAW Picket Trump’s Rally in Detroit?
Trump’s speeches are terrifying echoes of those heard in Europe in the 1930s. They are appeals to labor by a candidate supported by heavily armed, fascist political formations.
How Anti–Sex Work Legislation Is About to Get Worse How Anti–Sex Work Legislation Is About to Get Worse
FOSTA-SESTA made sex workers less safe and the Internet less free. A spate of new laws is deepening the damage.
Trump and the Auto Strike— Plus, the Politics of Insecurity Trump and the Auto Strike— Plus, the Politics of Insecurity
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Garment Workers Are Getting Closer to a Fair Wage Garment Workers Are Getting Closer to a Fair Wage
Advocates are working to get a version of California’s Garment Workers Protection Act passed at the federal level.
The Score
We Have the Solution to Child Poverty. Republicans Are Blocking It. We Have the Solution to Child Poverty. Republicans Are Blocking It.
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“Bidenomics” vs. “Reaganomics” “Bidenomics” vs. “Reaganomics”
What will it take for Biden’s economic agenda to transform the political landscape the way to Reagan’s did?
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