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The Unions Strike Back: Janus, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and the Future of Organized Labor
The echoes of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the nation’s largest armed labor uprising, still reverberate throughout West Virginia’s...
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Jun 2, 20186 min read


Zoned Out: How a Bipartisan Investment Bill is Ripe for Abuse
Hidden within the 2018 tax reform bill is a provision that could reinvent development financing across the country. The Investment in...
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May 28, 20183 min read


Losing Power: How Austerity Kept the Lights Off in Puerto Rico
In September 2017, Hurricanes Irma and Maria swept through Puerto Rico, taking with them hundreds of lives across the island. The...
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Apr 10, 20183 min read


Janus and the Two Faces of Labor Union Future
Like Janus–the Roman god with two faces–the Supreme Court case Janus vs. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees...
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Apr 1, 20185 min read


Getting Off Track: Evaluating MTA Construction Priorities
The New York City Subway system is in a state of complete disarray. Currently, only 65 percent of subway trains arrive at their...
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Mar 29, 20185 min read


California Deserves a Better Property Tax Law Than Prop 13
California’s housing crisis is well-documented. Palo Alto, home to Stanford, offers subsidized housing assistance for any household with...
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Mar 18, 20186 min read


The Trump Administration is Failing Our Family Farmers
Before a crowd of some 23,000 assembled for the 2017 Farm Aid concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania—about twenty minutes south of...
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Mar 2, 20185 min read


Nutrition Resistance: Opposing GOP Efforts to Scale Back SNAP
Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year would make major changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)....
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Feb 26, 20185 min read


HQ2—To benefit whom?
Amazon’s search for a city in which to locate its second North American headquarters has caused a frenzy among prospective locations....
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Feb 25, 20184 min read


Cashless and Careless: Digital Payments and Silent Bank Runs
Mobile payment, facilitated by services like Chase QuickDeposit and Citi Electronic Check Deposit (ECD), has exploded recently. It’s...
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Feb 3, 20186 min read


Money Well-Spent: Boost Pay for Adjuncts, Forget Glitzy Stadiums
American universities have become notorious for their price tags. In the last 20 years, private university costs have increased by 157...
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Jan 11, 20186 min read


Good Policy, No Buyer: The Fall Rhode Island’s Greenhouse Compact
No state escaped deindustrialization, but some weathered it better than others. Rhode Island was not one of those states. At the turn of...
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Dec 27, 20178 min read


Shopping Outside the Box: Why Walmart’s Departure May Be a Good Deal for Rural America
In January of 2016, Walmart announced that it would be closing 154 of its locations in the US. This included all 102 Walmart Express...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


Judgment Day: The Future of Mandatory Arbitration in the Wake of the Equifax Hack
The Equifax hack shocked Americans in both its scope and preventability. The Social Security numbers of over 143 million citizens were...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


Boeing and Iran: Boeing’s Quest to Give the Iran Deal a Soft Landing
In the present-day United States, no landmark political decision is insulated from commercial interests: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


Should Your Town Print Its Own Money?
In the wake of the crisis of 2007-8, central banks became understandably more willing to try out new monetary policies. Quantitative...
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Dec 9, 20176 min read


Getting America’s Passenger Trains Back on Track
America’s passenger rail is struggling. American rail is far slower, more expensive and less reliable than its global counterparts....
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Dec 8, 20175 min read


Working Together: A Benefit for Workers and the Economy
Cooperative development provides major benefits over traditional corporations. It focused on building cooperative enterprises and...
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Dec 3, 20175 min read


Will Autonomous Vehicles Cause Our Transport System to Crash and Burn?
Already one of the leading causes of death in the United States, traffic accidents are alarmingly on the rise. From 2015 to 2016, the...
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Nov 3, 20174 min read


Stock Buybacks: Quietly Haunting the American Economy
Americans often decry the high rate of executive pay in this country. It is certainly true that American CEO’s are being paid more than...
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Nov 3, 20175 min read
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