How Redlining’s Legacies Demand New Policy Action
Redlining has inscribed unjust boundaries in our cities and worsened inequality. It's time for bold policy solutions.
Policy
A Working Class Victory on Colombia’s Horizon
An advancing labor reform bill could increase overtime pay, expand social security for delivery workers, and strengthen workplace rights.
Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another
In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.
In the World’s Wealthiest Country, Housing Should Be a Human Right and a Community Builder
The focus on zoning, commerce, and profit-maximization does a disservice to the rich sense of community affordable housing can create.
Mexico Must Stand up to Agribusiness Oligopolies on GM Corn Ban
U.S. and Canadian civil society groups are denouncing their own governments’ efforts, driven by the agribusiness industry, to repeal Mexico’s proposed ban on genetically modified corn.
Scraping Away the Anti-Worker, Anti-Racial Equity Vestiges of the Reagan Era
The Biden administration aims to undo contracting policy holdovers from the 1980s to boost public investment benefits for workers and their communities.
The Transit Equity Movement Wins Their Biggest Zero Fare Victory Yet
A racial justice-focused community organizing group led the charge for Albuquerque’s free bus fare policy.
Red Cup Rebellion Redux: A Q&A with Starbucks Workers United
"You are making $15 an hour when your boss is making that in a breath.”
Revealing the True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy
How the ultra-wealthy use charitable giving to avoid taxes and exert influence — while ordinary taxpayers foot the bill.