Three Top Candidates Today is Election Day in New York City. A powerful mayor will be selected in a late June election which skews voter turnout to the always voting property-owning/professional classes. In Generation Priced Out I urge cities to
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Housing First is Key to Ending Homelessness People are angry over homelessness. Videos of fighting tent dwellers, shootings in encampments and open air drug supermarkets are increasingly associated with the unhoused. Long overdue solutions to the crisis—such as huge new
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This piece first appeared in Streetsblog USA. A nearly 900-page federal rulebook of arcane street design regulations that virtually no one has heard of just received an unprecedented amount of public interest — which street safety advocates chalk up to
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Historic Opportunity to Reduce Poverty in America American politicians talk a lot about “family values.” But our high child poverty rate says otherwise. President Biden’s American Rescue Plan changes this. It sends families $3,000 per child for ages 6 to
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Overcoming Resistance to Increasing Affordability The pandemic has worsened America’s affordability crises for both renters and potential homeowners. When people are priced out of Baltimore, East Oakland and other long affordable communities, something is badly out of whack. We know
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The Truth Behind Nurses Week (May 6-12) Since 1990, when the American Nurses Association declared that an entire week – from May 6-12th (the birthday of Florence Nightingale) — would be dedicated to celebrating the nation’s nurses, hospitals and other
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Rising Protests Across U.S. On Mayday, a lone man scrawled slogans in red paint on the front wall of the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise [MOGE] office on Pagoda Road in Yangon, Myanmar.   The slogans demanded that four international energy
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For as long as Richard Trumka has been a national AFL-CIO leader—more than a quarter of a century—his labor federation has been encouraging its state and local affiliates to revitalize themselves to help reverse union decline. Now nearing retirement as
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