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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 ...
Today, Black employees make up 18.7 percent of the federal workforce. This is no accident — it reflects decades of civil ...
Flequer Vera, co-founder of the Sustainergy worker co-op, knows first-hand about exploitation in the American workplace.
Uber in Houston offered freedom – flexible hours, quick cash, and time to care for his young son. But that promise faded fast ...
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 ...
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 ...
A classic coup d’état has guns. Uniformed men run wild seizing government agencies and claiming control over what government does and who government serves. But in our new cyber age, the Yale ...
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 ...