August 1, 2013
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Comments Off on Southern Revival: The Righteous Progressivism of Moral Mondays
For 13 weeks, the North Carolina state house in Raleigh was the focus of “Moral Mondays” — a progressive movement organized by the state’s NAACP president, Rev. William Barber, in response to what he called North Carolina GOP’s “mean-spirited quadruple … Continue reading
June 25, 2013
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Comments Off on Wage Theft At The Reagan Building: Our Tax Dollars At Work
Think of it as a two for one deal. Not only do our tax dollars subsidize low wages, but taxpayers also subsidize the wage theft that usually goes hand in hand with low-wage work. At least, that’s what workers at … Continue reading
June 25, 2013
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Comments Off on Finishing The March: African-Americans and the Jobs Deficit
In “The Unfinished March,” the first in a series reports from the Economic Policy Institute, economist Algernon Austin outlines the “unfinished business” of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Progress on civil rights, such as voting rights … Continue reading