Candidates who pledged to make Oakland work for everyone swept the November elections. They face two huge hurdles to making that real: proposals to close more schools, and to build a stadium plus luxury housing at the Port of Oakland.
Is Biden ready to insist that national economic planning is not just ideologically permissible but urgently necessary?
New York’s economic development policy was all about developing the pocketbooks of campaign donors and leaving working class and poor New Yorkers behind, cutting out small businesses, favoring cronies, leaving communities struggling for resources.
To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.
My part of the world is full of people who, according to most of my liberal friends, “vote against their own interests”.
The San Diego Labor Council has worked to gain a seat at the table on local governing boards that guide regional economic development.
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