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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 ...
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 ...
This week marks the end of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. The president campaigned as a champion of working class voters. But straight out of the blocks, his policy choices ...
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 ...
Trump’s trade policies have been wildly unpredictable in the first two months of his second presidency. Tariff deadlines have come and been delayed with no rhyme or reason, leaving cross-border trade ...
The cadre of billionaires in top cabinet positions in Donald Trump’s administration is a clear embrace of government by and for the wealthy. The ultra-wealthy have accumulated an unfathomable amount ...
About three score years ago, on a January Sunday afternoon in 1967, some of us gathered in college dorm basement lounges to watch pro football’s historic first “Super Bowl.” A good bit has changed ...