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Student workers keep Columbia University running, yet many struggle to make ends meet in one of the most expensive cities in the country.

Nebraska still gets 51% of its electricity from coal. But there’s good news: Nebraska has exceptional potential for wind energy.

How an Energy Transition Could Power Nebraska

Biden can’t say he’s putting human rights first and then welcome a prime minister who boasts about war crimes to the White House.

Even with climate disasters all around us, nonviolent environmental demonstrations face fierce police repression. Why?

The climate jobs program in the budget reconciliation deal should build on FDR’s initiative in ways that advance equity for all.

Over the next two years, they will study the problem of economic disparity and develop policy solutions.

Corporations pay lower taxes than ever. A modest corporate tax hike would be transformative.

As the federal eviction moratorium expiration date looms, housing organizers in one of America’s most unequal states offer a new, equitable path forward.

The classic teen drama returns. This time, with class consciousness.

Here’s everything you need to know about the urgency of fair tax reforms to pay for vital public investments and reverse extreme inequality.

The new administration has made some welcome changes, but Biden isn’t living up to all his promises — especially on detention.

An expanded child tax credit could create the ‘bootstraps’ to lift the next generation.

Millions of rural Americans don’t have a car. With the pandemic battering transit agencies, they’re being totally isolated.

By working towards creating ‘land without landlords,’ this East Bay cooperative is helping communities build pathways to collective property ownership and community wealth.

The Maryland-based initiative targets people who have historically helped to build the wealth of this society but had no real participation in that wealth.

Shared ownership is crucial for building the power of communities that have long had their wealth extracted by others.

Lifting these financial burdens would help individual debt holders meet daily needs, reduce the racial wealth gap, and give a boost to the national economy.

People did not turn out in record numbers in the midst of a pandemic to vote for a return to normal. They want policy change based on a moral agenda.

A new film follows community organizer facing multiple challenges to voter mobilization, including skepticism about whether elites have rigged our political system.