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Shutdown by Design: How State-Capacity Sabotage Stalls Industrial Renewal, Shreds Public Trust, and Hurts Families
A government that cannot govern, cannot build.
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Rey Fuentes
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The Cost of a Single Trump Tax Break Would Bring 3.2 Million Individuals Out of Poverty. SSI Reform Could Change Lives.
During the debate on the 2025 GOP reconciliation bill, Republican lawmakers argued that cutting aid for able-bodied adults would free resources for…
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Stephen Nuñez
​​Corporations Have Bent the Government to Their Will. To Win for Working People, We Must Fight Smarter.
For anyone questioning whether our country is rigged in favor of corporations and billionaires, the image of Elon Musk in the Oval Office in the first…
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Brad Lipton
The Cruelty Is the Point: Work Requirements Don’t Lift People Up—They Drag Us All Down.
In last week's Substack, we wrote about how politicians have been scapegoating a very specific population of people: “able-bodied adults without…
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Stephen Nuñez
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Noa Rosinplotz
ABAWDs are Workers, Caregivers, and Neighbors, Not Political Punching Bags
After spending the summer being heckled by constituents who are angry about the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” GOP lawmakers are being advised by…
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Noa Rosinplotz
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Stephen Nuñez
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August 2025

Raising a Nation: Elliot Haspel on What a Universal Childcare Movement Will Take
It is no secret that childcare in the US is, as Elliot Haspel puts it, “a hellscape.” Elliot’s new book, Raising a Nation: 10 Reasons Every American Has…
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Lena Bilik
The Social Security Funding Crunch Is Looming. Current Proposals from Congress Aren’t Cutting It.
In June, Social Security’s Board of Trustees released its annual report on the financial status of the program, revealing that Social Security is in…
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Justin Bloesch
Celebrate Today but Fight Tomorrow: Social Security’s Anniversary Is a Call to Action
This should be a moment of celebration. But instead, on Social Security’s 90th anniversary, I find myself sounding an alarm. The program my grandfather…
Patchwork Nation: From Code to Cleaning, AI Is Beginning to Devalue Everyone’s Work
AI anxiety is becoming a bipartisan issue. The tech sector was once a seemingly unshakable source of solid employment. Now people who can code are…
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Samantha Shorey

July 2025

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