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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

When Sleeping Is a Crime

Colleen Shaddox The American Prospect
With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest. Today in Washington, DC the order is out - lock up the unhoused.

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AI-Driven Worker Displacement Is a Serious Threat

Holly Buck Matt Huber Jacobin
By many estimates, the increasing use of artificial intelligence is set to produce significant job losses. The prospect of serious disruption demands that we start formulating egalitarian policy solutions right now.

This Week in People’s History, Jul 9–15, 2025

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The huge mushroom cloud resulting from testing an H-bomb ‘Nuclear Weapons Endanger the Human Race’ (1955), Standing Up for the Wrong Thing (1955), Jobless Workers on the March (1935), ‘The FBI Can Do No Wrong’ (1975), On the Eve of Destruction (1965)

This Week in People’s History, Mar 19–25

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Supporters of striking hospital workers marching through Charleston, S.C. Hospital Workers Win (in 1969), Virginia Racists Split Hairs (1924), Anti-Racist Education Rules (1969), Protesters Beat the Rap (1969), German Troops in Rome (1944), The Fork Not Taken (1989), An Unemployed Army (1894), Transatlantic Slave Trade
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