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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Current headlines surrounding the Olympic movement involve its decision to press on with the reset Summer Games this year in Tokyo, despite a still untamed global pandemic, as well as discussion of whether nations or corporations should boycott the 2024
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Cities Must Open Neighborhoods to Unhoused America’s homelessness crisis is an affordable housing crisis. It was triggered when low-income residents priced out by late 1970’s urban gentrification failed to get the Section 8 certificates (or other subsidies) necessary for them
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Biden Offers Positive Leadership Model “The problem with Cuomo is no one has ever liked him.” — Richard Ravitch, a former Democratic lieutenant governor. “I have not met a person yet in New York politics who has a good relationship
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Taplin Pushes to Increase Inclusion After ending exclusionary zoning and moving forward to legalize fourplexes, Berkeley is still pushing for a more inclusive city.  In a huge step toward that goal, Councilmember Terry Taplin is sponsoring a 100% Affordable Housing
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