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The Labor Board Gets a Raise

2 years 3 months ago
Today on TAP: With organizing campaigns and strikes on the rise, Congress finally proposes to increase funding for the NLRB—for the first time since 2014.
Harold Meyerson

The Committee Wraps It Up

2 years 3 months ago
Charged with investigating the January 6th insurrection, the committee made a devastating case against Trump, regardless of what the attorney general elects to do.
Harold Meyerson

What Now for China?

2 years 3 months ago
A conversation with Joshua Kurlantzick of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Prospect alum
Robert Kuttner

The Coming Social Security Clash

2 years 4 months ago
Today on TAP: The worsening income distribution has reduced payroll tax receipts. Progressives need compelling reforms to defend and strengthen our most popular program.
Robert Kuttner

Boeing’s Lobbying Blitz

2 years 4 months ago
The airplane maker is scrambling to get a deadline for improving cockpit safety systems on all planes pushed back.
Jarod Facundo

Splitting the Strikers at UC

2 years 4 months ago
Today on TAP: University of California managers divide (and—not clear yet if they’ll—conquer), while General Motors and Microsoft indulge a modicum of worker power.
Harold Meyerson

What’s Wrong at the Times

2 years 4 months ago
Management authorized $150 million for a stock buyback this year but resists the union’s wage proposal, which would yearly come to $15 million more than the paper wants to pay.
Steven Greenhouse

Defusing Tensions on Transit

2 years 4 months ago
The Kansas City transit system eliminated fares and fare evasion. The ensuing challenge? Homeless ‘loop riders.’
Gabrielle Gurley