Pain and Profit in Sovereign Debt: How New York Can Stop Vulture Funds from Preying on Countries December 2021 Org Blurbs The Center for Popular Democracy is a nonprofit organization that promotes equity, opportunity, and a dynamic democracy in partnership with innovative base-building organizations, organizing networks and alliances, and progressive unions across the country.... Read More

  May 2021   Contributors Recovery for All CT is a statewide coalition of labor, community, and faith organizations representing more than half a million residents—Black, Brown, and white. We are united in a long-term mission to eliminate the extreme inequalities in this state and build a more just, democratic, and egalitarian Connecticut.... Read More

Introduction MediaNews Group board member Heath Freeman, who once walked through a newsroom and asked “What do all these people do?” recently told a Washington Post reporter, “I would love our team to be remembered as the team that saved the newspaper business.”[1] That statement no doubt prompted dark laughter among the hundreds upon hundreds of newspaper employees who have been “saved” out of a job under his management of the company.... Read More

I. Introduction When asked about raising taxes on the wealthy to fund New York State’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo has said “I don’t know how you raise taxes on people who are out of work and their businesses are closed because government needs more funding.”[1] It is not the only time that Cuomo has implied that the ultra-rich have been as ravaged by the pandemic as working class New Yorkers.... Read More

As the US quickly becomes the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, millions of people sheltering in place are increasingly turning to Amazon to secure basic goods. People working throughout Amazon’s operations are taking enormous personal risks by continuing to go to work in the midst of a pandemic. A single Amazon warehouse can employ thousands of people, which significantly concentrates the risk of transmission.[1]... Read More