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Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) tenant and employee representatives have chosen Neil McInroy and Ruth Welford to...

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One of the progressive left’s goals has to be to empower citizens and this is most easily done at the local level.

Governors Wind Energy Coalition 660+ Groups Call on Democrats to ‘Reject Gas and Other False Climate Solutions’ for Clean Energy Standard Source: By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams • Posted: Thursday, May 13, 2021 “As we look to combat the climate emergency, it is crucial that we invest in solutions that support a just energy future.” With federal lawmakers and the White House working on a historic infrastructure package, more than 660 progressive groups on Wednes...

Economically, this approach cannot be rerun because it depended on a very particular context – the “long boom” of the 1990s and early 2000s. The high growth of this period was the product of a unique set of circumstances, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the entry of the former Communist bloc into global markets at the same time as market reforms in China, creating a “great doubling” of the global workforce. This glut of cheap labour, alongside the liberalisati...

Alerts A large section of Manhattan’s Upper West Side and Midtown neighborhoods are seen in darkness from above during a major power outage on July 13, 2019 in New York City. Photo: Scott Heins (Getty Images) Two years ago, New York enshrined the most ambitious statewide climate targets in the country. The legislation, called the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, requires the state to completely decarbonize its electric grid by 2040 and reduce emissions from all sectors by 85%...

Isaiah J. Poole Contributor Isaiah J. Poole is editorial manager for the Democracy Collaborative and its research arm, the Next System Project. Before joining the Democracy Collaborative in 2018, he was communications director for Peoples Action and for the Campaign for Americas Future. Poole has more than 30 years of experience in journalism, both as a reporter covering Washington D.C.-area and national politics and as a news and features editor. He also was a founding member of both the Washi...

Skip to main content Currently Reading As Senate rushes $1.9 trillion bill through Congress, Biden faces doubts over whether its still the right package Jeff Stein, Heather Long and Erica Werner, The Washington Post March 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail President Biden speaks about the Paycheck Protection Program at the White House on Feb. 22.Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford. WASHINGTON - It was dark days when, six days before his inauguration, President Joe Biden first released his $1.9 t...

Critics have questioned numerous facets of the stimulus plan Democrats are rushing to pass.

Alerts Customers use the light from a cell phone to look in the meat section of a grocery store in Dallas last week. Photo: LM Otero (AP) Right now, Texas is in the balmy mid-50s. Yet just a week ago, it was colder than Alaska, and we all know what happened next. Much of the state’s energy capacity got knocked offline, leaving millions of people without power, heat, and water for days. Advertisement The extreme weather itself was an anomaly, caused by a particularly nasty blast of chilly Arct...