Trump’s Tax Law Clobbers State Budgets. Now’s the Time to Prepare.
With Trump and the GOP slashing essential services to enrich the wealthy, states and cities need to get creative in taking care of the rest of us.
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Medicaid Cuts Will Devastate People with Disabilities and Their Communities
Cutting Medicaid strips essential home and community-based medical services from people with disabilities.
How City-Owned Grocery Stores Can Tackle Food Insecurity
As private grocers abandon low-income neighborhoods, Zohran Mamdani’s public ownership proposal offers a solution to market failures.
A Textbook Case of How Tax Policy Fuels Obscene Wealth Accumulation
Jeff Bezos is paying only peanuts in tax on the profits he’s making selling off his Amazon shares.
The Trump-GOP Budget Is a Dire Threat to Oregon’s Patients, Hospitals, and Nurses
Health care workers are warning of dangerous conditions in hospitals for patients and nurses alike under the new law.
Democrats Can Win Back the Working-Class with Economic Populism
New research from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows that progressive economic policies can bring working-class Trump supporters back into the Democratic Party.
Discipline and Punish: How Wall Street’s Grip on School Finance Deepens Inequality
Federal funding cuts will only worsen school districts' damaging dependence on debt.
Republican Tax and Spending Law Is Economically Misguided and Deeply Unfair
Cutting taxes for the wealthy and businesses and paying for it with Medicaid cuts will not have a positive impact on growth but will deepen the deficit and widen inequality.
10 Terrible Ways the GOP Budget Causes Harm
The new law slashes vital services to pay for tax cuts for the rich and massive hikes in military and deportation funding.
The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Subsidize the Billionaire Private Jet Class
A new study finds that the U.S. is the largest source of private jet emissions.
Can We Build Public and Political Support for Tackling Inequality?
Why we need to challenge the ‘meritocratic’ narrative on how people get rich.
Unhoused and Then Displaced, Like Me
I was one of 200 people evicted from a forest in Oregon. But with high housing prices and no shelter space nearby, where are we supposed to go?