New Orleans My bad! I called it way wrong. After the New York legislative session where under the influence of a Democratic majority and progressive forces, major breakthroughs occurred, especially around expanding rent control access to cities around the state and closing landlord loopholes that had existed for decades, I interpreted the progress as having …
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WFP Knows the Rules: Save the Party First, Endorse the Candidates Second
New Orleans The headlines were all topspin, which is the way most people follow politics. The influential and growing political force in New York State, the Working Families Party, had made a deal, significantly brokered by the new Mayor of New York, and longtime WFP and New Party activist, Bill de Blasio, and would now …
Poverty, Credit and Kiva
Hartford Sixty odd students at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work along with people from the Working Families Party, ACORN, MoveOn, and so forth came together to learn about Professor Bob Fisher’s newly released edited volume, The People Shall Rule, and Citizen Wealth. Good pizza, good feeling, good folks, and good, hard questions …