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Guest Blogger
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Budget Process,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?
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Shailly Gupta-Barnes
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Budget Process,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
By raising taxes on the wealthy and redirecting other public resources, we can meet everyone’s needs and strengthen our economy.
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Sarah Anderson
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary.
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John Feffer
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
What's the answer to declining births, labor shortages, and spending shortfalls? Immigration. Just ask Germany.
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Domenica Ghanem
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
Three white Jeopardy contestants recently thought reparations had already been paid. It made me feel strangely optimistic.
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Guest Blogger
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Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
People escaping violence have a right to seek safety. If they can’t, that’s the real crisis.
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Phyllis Bennis
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
The factors that drive displacement are often complex, but welcoming refugees isn't.
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Domenica Ghanem
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Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
The Biden administration is bending rules to drop bombs but not raise wages. That’s a mistake.
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Sarah Anderson
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Budget Process,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
The Progressive Caucus has unveiled a legislative agenda designed to meet the scale of the pandemic catastrophe and reduce our vulnerability to future crises.
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Phyllis Bennis
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Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
Even a lame-duck Congress must remember their actions have global consequences too.