The Climate Mobilization Act lays the groundwork for New York City’s own Green New Deal.
Ratification is currently underway, and when ratified, this agreement stands to set a liberating precedent for nurses across the country (except CA where staffing limits are law) who are eager for safer working conditions for themselves and patients.
In my research as an economist studying corporate welfare, I have reviewed much evidence on the effectiveness of tax and other incentives. My conclusion: Incentives just don’t work.
As NYC educators worked to make sense of a proposal that UFT union officials were asking them to move forward just 24 hours later, some union members began to raise concerns.
The labor movement once built 40,000 units of low-cost co-op apartments for working class New Yorkers. Those units are embers of a vision that once fired the labor movement: Build for human need, not for profit. Labor can build it again.
In terms of planning, the anarchy of the present is hard to dispute. In NYC, about 200,000 businesses contract directly with... roughly 260 trash-hauling companies, without regard for the geographic distribution of the company’s pickup points.
Midwesterners aren't scared of socialism — they're hungry for it. Some members of the Democratic establishment argue that bold, left-wing platforms can't win elections. They're wrong.
Ocasio-Cortez’s team played a different game, focusing on infrequent primary voters and millennials. And her volunteers were fellow progressives and first-time activists inspired by her candidacy.
The “Subway Scam” ads are the latest baloney from the Center for Union Facts, a corporate-backed nonprofit devoted to attacking unions. According to recent tax filings, its funders include hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, a major backer of the Trump presidential campaign and Breitbart News.
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