by Negin Owliaei | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog
Photo credit: VOCAL-NY November’s Blue Wave didn’t only take place on a federal level. Democrats flipped hundreds of state legislature seats, including in New York, where they took control of the Senate for the first time in a decade. Now, the activists across the...
by Tara Raghuveer | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog
Our nation is in a full-blown housing emergency. Today, a person working full time in a minimum-wage job cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment - anywhere in the United States. More than half of all Americans spend a third or more of their income on housing. Only one...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 11, 2019 | Blog
Corporatists have sought to shame two clear-eyed lawmakers in recent weeks for daring to offer prescriptions to cure America's rampant economic anxiety. “Stupid” is what they tried to call new Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she became the youngest...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 8, 2019 | Blog
Andrew Leigh, a member of the Australian parliament, has a side gig. He just happens to be a working economist. Other lawmakers may spend their spare hours making cold calls for campaign cash. Leigh spends his doing research — on why our modern economies are leaving...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 7, 2019 | Blog
Three weeks have passed since Donald Trump shut down much of the government because Congress won’t give him $5.6 billion in taxpayer money to build 200 miles of his illusory Wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Let’s be clear on one thing: There is no Wall. There...
by Sara LaWall | Dec 21, 2018 | Blog
Two thousand years ago, a young mother and father fled for their lives and left everything behind for the safety of their child. Their names were Mary and Joseph. I can’t help but think what would happen to this migrant family and their brown-skinned baby at our...
