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Red States Send Back Millions in Federal Housing Aid

Pranav Baskar The Boston Globe
“The funds set aside for the State of Nebraska could serve tens of thousands of households, helping those families avoid eviction and the many consequences of losing their homes,”

U.S. Jews Favor Return to Iran Deal

Philip Weiss Mondoweiss
Jews support a return to the Iran deal by 68-32, according to a new survey. And when Jews are asked to name their top two political issues, Israel shows up near the bottom of the list, well behind climate change.

Feminist Resistance Against War in Sweden

Paulina de los Reyes , Diana Mulinari , Emma Rosengren transform! europe
Through decades we have learnt that sustainable peace can never be built through military strategies and militarized worldviews.

AFL-CIO President: How Working People Defined the Midterm Elections

Richard L. Trumka Yahoo
AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka says the midterm elections showed how unions are dismantling a broken system that expects workers to work harder and longer and produce more wealth than ever before—but take home the same or even less.

Amazon Is Everything That's Wrong With America

Robert Reich RobertReich.org
As the Times’ Badger has reported, the digital economy has been great for places like Seattle, New York, metropolitan Washington, and the other big talent hubs like San Francisco, Boston, and LA. But it’s left behind much of the rest of the country.

Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap

Zenobia Jeffries Warfield Yes! Magazine
As much pride and empowerment as there is in community ownership of food-producing gardens and financial services such as credit unions, research shows those sorts of grassroots efforts cannot close the ever-growing racial wealth gap . . .