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A year after the Supreme Court greenlit crackdowns on people living without shelter, homelessness has only gotten worse.
They call it resilience. We call it survival. But what we’re really doing is building something else entirely. Something they ...
This week, the D.C. Council voted to pause a wage increase related to Initiative 82, the 2022 ballot measure that ...
Last October, after months of hard work, we announced that we were forming a union with the Teamsters. It was exhilarating ...
But Congress has underfunded transit for years. And this is particularly true when it comes to operations funds — which are key to helping agencies across the country solve their current budget ...
House Republicans’ tax plan would expand a tax break in the 2017 tax reform for “pass-through” businesses that has overwhelmingly benefited high earners. “Pass-throughs” are entities structured so ...
The top tax rate wealthy Americans pay on their investment gains today runs barely half the top rate the rest of us pay on our wages. But that only begins to tell the story of how lightly taxed our ...
Increasing taxes on high income earners helped raise revenue without hampering the wealth of the millionaire class in Massachusetts and Washington, according to a new policy brief from the Institute ...
On May Day, we remember the long – and ongoing – struggle for worker’s rights. But there is a part of that story that we seldom acknowledge: the role of young people in the labor movement. Traditional ...
Republican leaders in Congress have been working feverishly over recent days to renew the rich people-friendly 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire at this year’s end. Both the House and Senate have now ...
Why is Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, hyperventilating about Social Security? Why is he inventing unhinged tales about “fraudulent” hordes of Social Security grifters? Why is his “DOGE” ...