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Helping the Powerless Build Power
Oral histories of five activists whoâve worked in and for worker centers
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Activists rally outside New York Gov. Andrew Cuomoâs office to call on a $15 minimum wage.
Over the past quarter century, a new form of worker organization â worker centers â have arisen among groups of workers, primarily immigrants and African Americans, for whom unionization isnât usually an option, largely due to the limited scope of the laws governing collective bargaining rights. To tell the stories of these organizations, the Prospect
has conducted oral histories with a range of worker center activists and leaders. Here, edited and condensed for space, are excerpts from five of them.
Architecture plays a key role in reimagining care solutions
A simple yet innovative concept combines stable housing, intergenerational care, social integration, and neighborhood revitalization.
By Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi SegalUpdated April 26, 2021, 3:00 a.m.
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic, older adults and people with disabilities were already beginning to feel the start of the nationâs imminent care crisis. The problem is two-fold: On the one hand, the high cost of care is financially out of reach for 80 percent of the middle class and altogether inaccessible to lower-income families; on the other hand, there are not enough caregivers to meet the existing demand of aging baby boomers.
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Wyden, Merkley, Democrat colleagues reintroduce ‘Green New Deal’ resolution
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said Thursday they joined colleagues to reintroduce the Green New Deal Resolution, legislation that they said would address the existential challenge of climate change and create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the process.
“Oregonians enduring longer wildfire seasons along with prolonged droughts know full well how the climate crisis is already ravaging communities throughout our state,” Wyden said. “The need to act is now, and the Green New Deal recognizes that urgency by sending a powerful message that it’s time to kick America’s carbon habit before it destroys our families, our economy, and the future of our planet.”