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Who Needs Debt Forgiveness?
Ah, student debt. 43.3 million Americans have it. And Hillary Clinton feels our pain. As part of her latest platform proposal, the Initiative on Technology & Innovation, Clinton is proposing that a small subset of the currently-afflicted be eligible for some forgiveness, to the tune of $17,500. Sounds like a step in the right direction, at first
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Undesigning the Redline
In recent years, “gentrification” has infiltrated the everyday speech of urban residents struggling to stay in their communities in the face of rising rents. But gentrification is only one piece of a much longer history of displacement and policy-produced poverty in American cities. This history runs from slavery through Jim Crow, redlining, racial covenants, blockbusting, urban renewal, capital
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New Labor Forum Highlights: June 27th, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. With this newsletter, we offer commentary and labor news on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster musical, Hamilton. Haven’t seen it? Odds are
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Brexit & the Working Class
By Leah Feder Brits, Europeans and the world at large have experienced a rude awakening over the past 24 hours. The people of the United Kingdom have, against most predictions, voted to leave the European Union — inviting an onslaught of as-yet unknown consequences. Lots of factors conspired to bring the country to this unexpected place: xenophobia, falling wages,
