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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.

Can States Reinvent U.S. Healthcare?

Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking
Phillip Alvelda, a former DARPA program manager, reveals how a fracturing federal system has opened the door for bold state leadership. Will blue states rise to build a healthier, more just future?

Fossil Fool

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
How Europe took Trump for a ride

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Trades Unions Are Split in Their Response to Trump

Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Keith Brower Brown Jacobin
The Trump administration is attacking jobs and wages in the building trades, as well as the rights of immigrant workers. Building trades unions have been divided over whether to try to curry favor with the president or confront the attacks head-on.
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