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  1. A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts Yachts and boats
    6 Jun 2014 … "Why don’t the unemployed get off their couches?" and eight other critical questions for Americans. Continue reading
  2. Van Jones on Being a ‘Post-Hope Democrat’ Supporters hold up signs that read "Hope" as Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks at a rally in Concord, N.H. January 2008 (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
    4 Apr 2012 … The former green jobs czar explains the importance of winning in November... and December. Continue reading
  3. Interview Transcript: Frances Moore Lappé On Why She’s Reinventing Herself Lappé addresses a crowd gathered for the Democracy Spring mobilization in Washington, DC. (Photo: Democracy Spring)
    11 Nov 2016 … Frances Moore Lappé, founder of the Small Planet Institute, has been a leader on questions of food and sustainability since the 1970s, when she published her groundbreaking book, Diet for a Small Planet. But, as she described in a recent Continue reading
  4. How Populists Like Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Racism https://www.flickr.com/photos/evandagan/19816882994/in/photolist-x9uKKV-x8WUsc-xecZmN-whXSeA-xa5tmQ-x8pZ9f-x8qd29-x6Rsms-wRG8tx-x6RJ6J-wRxsH3-wRxN6S-x9b9nv-x8qukm-wc9GUs-x6R2uJ-x9Ju84-wca8rJ-wRGipV-wRxPxY-wRyVKh-x9bVgP-x9b4jK-x9aV6a-wc9YLY-wRxvQ3-x9Hfk6-wRyqGs-x6RmGS-wcihKM-x6RNeU-wRy1Mm-wRzb1j-x8qg9w-x6RaNh-wRyNXu-wciKvv-wcadzQ-x6RRxY-wcjbJ6-wc9t89-x8oH9S-wRG46V-wRFMDT-x9bAwp-wciUfV-wRxCSj-wcjr8M-wRxM87-x9JA8R
    1 Jan 2016 … Bernie Sanders’s remarkable popularity going into the Iowa caucus shows that economic populism is ascendant on the left. And yet the notable whiteness of his followers forces an uncomfortable question about this emerging progressive coalition. It’s been 50 years since Continue reading
  5. Why We Need a Universal Basic Income Fast food worker strikes in New York City, July 2013. (Photo by Annette Bernhardt/ flickr CC 2.0)
    9 Sep 2017 … As Labor Day approached this year, I awaited the lip service of Republicans praising “job creators” and business owners. I knew full well there was no chance they’d honor the common laborer — the people who feed, house and transport Continue reading
  6. The Older Americans Act and US Seniors Social worker Roberta Marzano with Caring People Alliance speaks with seniors at the Fels South Philadelphia Community Center in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. In light of Pennsylvania's six-week-old budget stalemate, Arlene Bell, the president and CEO of Caring People Alliance told her several hundred employees that this Friday's payroll would be slashed by more than half to keep the 77-year-old nonprofit's doors open to the children and elderly it serves. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    6 Jun 2013 … Because of sequestration, millions of dollars will be cut from the Great Society-era Older Americans Act during a time when our seniors can least afford it. Continue reading
  7. Biden’s Child Tax Credit as Universal Basic Income
    3 Mar 2021 … The most transformative part of the American Rescue Plan will be very hard for Republicans to reverse. Continue reading
  8. Class in America and Donald Trump Campaign supporters await the arrival of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Westfield, Indiana. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/AFP/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … In her new book, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Nancy Isenberg rips apart the myth that the United States is a class-free society, where hard work is rewarded by social mobility. In this email exchange, Continue reading
  9. Immokalee Workers Deliver on ‘Freedom From Want’ Farmworkers pick tomatoes at Taylor & Fulton Tomatoes in this March 30, 2006 file photo, in Immokalee, Fla. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)
    10 Oct 2013 … Fearless farmworkers show us the powerful potential of grassroots groups to agitate for change. Continue reading
  10. Protect and Strengthen Medicare and Medicaid Programs for Another 50 Years
    1 Jan 2015 … The government health care programs turn 50 this year. One advocate for the elderly argues that rising health care costs mean that strengthening and improving them is more important than ever. Continue reading