It’s time to impose a speculation and vacancy tax on the real estate corporations destroying our neighborhoods.
Economy & Labor
Tenants are fighting back against privatized affordable housing and against concepts of capitalist land ownership.
The two-week walkout will also likely have reverberations for teachers and other union members outside of Chicago.
These policies must nurture programs and institutions with lasting effects, rather than offering short-term band-aids.
City governments have been enforcing increasingly punitive measures that criminalize homelessness.
Unless you are wealthy or a massive corporation, Trump’s tax cuts have been a dismal failure.
California’s wildfires and blackouts show the dangers of entrusting our power to for-profit corporations.
The Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 forced Mayor Lori Lightfoot to find money she said wasn’t there.
Wage growth is surprisingly weak given the low unemployment rate, but there’s no sign of a recession.
Monsanto has long had the upper hand over the farmers who use its products.