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The Perennial Struggle of Young Workers

1 week ago | ips-dc.org | Caleb Crowder

On May Day, we remember the long – and ongoing – struggle for worker’s rights. But there is a part of that story that we seldom acknowledge: the role of young people in the labor movement. Traditional labor history tends to foreground the stories of middle-aged men with soot-streaked faces and calloused hands.
The Tax Debate: What’s in It for Jeff Bezos and Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy

3 weeks ago | ips-dc.org | Caleb Crowder

Top Amazon executives have received huge tax windfalls from the 2017 tax reform and stand to reap even bigger windfalls from the new tax legislation Congress is currently crafting. A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, the Athena Coalition, and PowerSwitch Action provides detailed analysis on how our rigged tax system has expanded the massive fortunes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andrew Jassy while leaving ordinary workers and small businesses behind.
Don’t Let Elon Musk Privatize the Postal Service

3 weeks ago | ips-dc.org | Caleb Crowder

The Trump Administration has been reviving plans to privatize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). But many lawmakers don’t like the idea, including some from President Donald Trump’s own party. “We are not going to privatize the Postal Service,” declared U.S. Representative Pete Stauber, Republican of Minnesota, at a March 25 rural letter carriers rally on Capitol Hill.
How to Stop an Autocrat

3 weeks ago | ips-dc.org | Caleb Crowder

The best way of preventing authoritarian leaders from overthrowing democracies is to make sure that they never get into power in the first place. That’s what the French did last year when parties on the left united and then made a second-round pact with the centrists to prevent Marine Le Pen and her far-right National Rally from winning a parliamentary majority. And now the courts have convicted Le Pen of corruption and barred her from running for office.
Video: Trump, Netanyahu, and the Real Estate Logic of Genocide

3 weeks ago | ips-dc.org | Caleb Crowder

Phyllis Bennis recently released her book Understanding Palestine and Israel. Recently, she filmed a video on the book for our international partners at the Transnational Institute. In the video, TNI says…. “She draws clear historical lines between settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
A Welcome New Twist on America’s Tax Future

4 weeks ago | ips-dc.org | Caleb Crowder

Republican leaders in Congress have been working feverishly over recent days to renew the rich people-friendly 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire at this year’s end. Both the House and Senate have now passed bills that do that renewing — and also add in some assorted new goodies.
What Will It Take for the Resistance to Win?

4 weeks ago | ips-dc.org | Sulma Arias |Caleb Crowder

Everywhere we look, a wave of resistance to the cruel policies of the Trump administration is rising. My heart is full as I think of everyone who is standing up right now to reclaim our democracy.
The Disintegration of North America

4 weeks ago | ips-dc.org | Caleb Crowder

Almost exactly 30 years ago, Canadian Bacon depicted a U.S. president picking on his neighbor to the north to boost his sagging approval ratings. Starring Alan Alda, John Candy, and Rhea Perlman, the film was supposed to be a comedy. Director Michael Moore was trying to satirize the U.S. penchant for invading other countries. Taking that notion to its absurd limit, Moore chose to depict a skirmish with Canada. Ah, the good old days, when you could laugh about such things.
American Women and Children Are in Crisis. Republicans Are About to Make it Worse

4 weeks ago | ips-dc.org | Karen Dolan |Caleb Crowder

Women and children are under threat in America. Jocelyn Smith of Roswell, New Mexico, knows this too well. “I’m disabled, taking care of my disabled daughter. I work, and I volunteer to help feed and house my community,” she told me. “Yet I need assistance affording meals for my family. Something is broken.”Smith knows, but did you know, that in the United States, nearly 43% of women – and almost half of all children – are poor or low-income?
How Can The Left Tackle the Climate Crisis?

4 weeks ago | ips-dc.org | Chris Mills Rodrigo |Caleb Crowder

Writing an effective political roadmap before a seismic election that is then released into a world transformed by that result is a tall order. Luckily for Malcolm Harris, the challenges — and the proposals floated to address them — in “What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis” are bigger than any one administration.