The Capital Commons, Part 2
How to best manage public capital.
Policy Advocacy
The ABC Act, Platinum Coins, & Seignorage
The Automatic BOOST to Communities (ABC) Act, introduced by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib with the support of Congresswoman Jayapal as well as economist and lawyer, Professor Rohan Grey, is how we could save the American people and the small businesses we depend on from perfectly preventable ruin at the hands of this pandemic. To grasp the …
Sign In to Dine In
There is a plan in my state of Illinois that can and should be replicated everywhere across America. Anyone who cares can contact representatives wherever they live and ask them to promote this novel idea. We can all post it on social media, and send it to local newspapers, radio, and TV stations. In less …
The Green New Deal Will Save Fossil Fuel Workers & Their Communities
The American fossil fuel industry is a sinking ship, and its workers need to ask themselves what will come next. The industry was already deeply in debt even before the Covid-19 crisis, and the current drop in crude prices will lead to a wave of firms claiming bankruptcy. This drastic reduction of fossil fuel …
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The Time for Medicare For All Is Now!
If you believe healthcare is a human right, one protected by our Constitution, as I do, then we must work together to support a single-payer, M4A system.
Help Save the USPS From Privatization
HR6407 is a purposefully horrible law and a gross miscarriage of justice that continues to this day. No other government agency at any level nor any federal contractor or private company has been mandated by law to fund retirement accounts 75 years into the future. The damage done to one of our national treasures by this law continue
COVID-19 Proves Our Point
Now that the government is dishing out money over a healthcare crisis, the “ounce of prevention” that Medicare For All would provide is looking better and better than the “pound of cure” we’re currently employing. In fact, Nathan Locke notes that a Progressive system would ameliorate a gigantic portion of many other problems we’re having as well.
The Economic Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
The Levy Institute presents policy prescriptions that not only address the crisis at hand but look into the future to deal with effects not yet seen.