The Case for Building Public Housing That Doesn’t Suck—And Lots of It
Units in the Seestadt Aspern urban development zone in Vienna, Austria.Imago/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Housing has been one of the single greatest vehicles for building wealth in the United States. Yet the ranks of Americans who can’t find affordable housing are swelling. Although the problem goes back decades, the collapse…
Republicans Want to Throw the Book at Colorado Teachers Getting Ready to Strike
Teachers hold placards during a rally outside the state Capitol, Monday, April 16, 2018, in Denver.David Zalubowski/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a week before thousands of Colorado teachers are expected to descend on the state capitol to rally for better pay and protest potential retirement benefit cuts, two Republican…
Arizona’s Governor Just Caved and Offered Teachers a 20 Percent Raise. They’re Not Satisfied.
Teachers at Tuscano Elementary School stage a “walk-in” for higher pay and school funding as they walk into school on Wednesday in Phoenix.Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday night, just a day after thousands of Arizona teachers staged “walk-ins” at their schools to call for better…
California’s Housing Crisis Is So Bad, Families Are Squatting Abandoned Homes Just to Survive
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When I ask Christine Hernandez, a mother of four, slender in stature and bold in manner, how best to scout for abandoned homes—the bleak dwellings with the boarded-up windows and ripped-out drywall, their innards packed with leftover syringes, rotting debris, and the peculiar loot of…
Minor League Baseball Players Make Poverty-Level Wages. Congress Wants to Keep It That Way.
Angel Zayas/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tucked away on page 1,967 of the $1.3 trillion omnibus bill making its way through Congress in an effort to avoid a government shutdown, between child welfare protections legislation and a bill to combat abuse of youth athletes, is a provision that would…
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The story of Wawarsing, New York, sounds a lot like the stories of small towns across the United States. Once a proud manufacturing hub known for producing high-quality knives in the Hudson Valley, its 150-year-old industry withered as companies were bought and sold, then squeezed for maximum profit until they packed up and moved…