Category: Environment

Book Review: The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights, by Mark Paul

University of Chicago Press, 2023. Reviewed by Trudy Goldberg In this ambitious, important book–especially for advocates of economic justice—economist Mark Paul “offer[s] a comprehensive prescription that aims to address the problem of persistent economic insecurity in America, one based on an expanded notion of American freedom and grounded in an alternative model of economic thought.”… Read More Book Review: The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights, by Mark Paul

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Sunrise Movement: Environmental Group Joins the Fight for a Federal Jobs Guarantee

    By GREGORY N. HEIRES An environmental activist group has included the federal jobs guarantee as a key component of its national campaign to address the climate crisis. The Sunrise Movement’s campaign for a Green New Deal includes a call for investing $10 trillion to create 15 million jobs over 10 years. In March,… Read More Sunrise Movement: Environmental Group Joins the Fight for a Federal Jobs Guarantee

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Environmental Group Joins the Fight for a Federal Jobs Guarantee

Sunrise Movement calls for a Green New Deal in Chicago, February 2019. By GREGORY N. HEIRES An environmental activist group has included the federal jobs guarantee as a key component of its national campaign to address the climate crisis. The Sunrise Movement’s campaign for a Green New Deal includes a call for investing $10 trillion… Read More Environmental Group Joins the Fight for a Federal Jobs Guarantee

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