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A Tale of 10 Cities

Valerie Wilson, Adewale A. Maye, Stevie Marvin Economic Policy Institute
Metro areas signal what’s at stake for Black Americans under Trump’s anti-equity agenda

What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means

Marc Kagan Jacobin
The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.

Why Lelo Juarez Chose Self-Deportation

David Bacon The Progressive
How the current conditions of immigrant detention and Trump Administration policies impelled a farmworker organizer to return to Mexico.

How the Rich Got Richer

John Miller Dollars & Sense
As more and more pass-through business income goes to the super-rich, the income share of the top 1% doubles.

How Americans View the Trump Tariff Policies

Jocelyn Kiley , Gabriel Borelli , Joseph Copeland and Shanay Gracia Pew Research Center
Trump’s Tariffs and ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Face More Opposition Than Support as His Job Rating Slips

Why I Joined the DSA

Lindsey Boylan The Indypendent
Not only is everything about DSA so unlike my experience working for Cuomo, it is so disparate from my experience of being abandoned by my own party, the Democratic Party of New York.
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