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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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Sierra Club Seeks Organizing Representative, Beyond Coal Campaign (NYC)
Job Title: Organizing Representative – Beyond Coal Campaign Department: Conservation Reports To: Field Organizing Manager Context: Builds grassroots power, by leading the implementation of organizing campaigns that will increase the number of people involved, leaders trained, and engagement of people with influence to achieve our conservation goals Plans, organizes and coordinates the activities of staff…
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NY Energy Democracy Alliance Seeks Statewide Coordinator
The New York Energy Democracy Alliance is a collaboration of community-based organizations, grassroots groups, and policy experts working together to move New York State toward a renewable, equitable, accountable and local energy system. As New York grapples with its energy vision, the Energy Democracy Alliance has worked to open up opportunities for grassroots and community-based…
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