With pandemic-era rental housing regulations ending, renters will gradually return to more familiar conditions of tenant living in 2023. Read it on Central Current
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“…According to a groundbreaking new working paper by Carter C. Price and Kathryn Edwards of the RAND Corporation, had the more equitable income distributions of the three decades following World War II (1945 through 1974) merely held steady, the aggregate annual income of Americans earning below the 90th percentile would have…
“Led by the New York Civil Liberties Union, community activists continue to press the city and state to protect the interests of public housing tenants and others as the I-81 project moves forward.” Read on Syracuse.com
Land, life and language: The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address is a greeting of gratitude to honor all that’s left. Read on Central Current
“… an update to the Electoral Count Act, which would modify ambiguities in current election law that Trump attempted to exploit to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcome.” Read it on Truthout.org
Thanks again to the incomparable Rebecca Solnit at NotTooLate for this: How the UK transformed its electricity supply in just a decade “… targets to phase out coal by 2025 and largely decarbonise the grid by 2030 could be met years ahead of schedule. The grid in Great Britain recently ran for a record 18 days straight without…
It’s easy to despair at the climate crisis, or to decide it’s already too late – but it’s not. Here’s how to keep the fight alive. www.nottoolateclimate.com
The Academy Award winner has been emailing a ‘daily dose of truth’ to mobilize supporters of the party to vote in November. Read Here
Since the climate emergency is the compelling issue of our time, here’s a suggestion: Read Rebecca Solnit. Why climate despair is a luxury. Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we. Read it in The New Statesman. “A 2021 study by the Indigenous Environmental Network and Oil Change International (on whose board I…
We should rightly be suspicious of facile comparisons, especially the casual use of fascism as an imprecise epithet, yet Weimar’s fate provides us with some instructive parallels and important warning signals. Read it in www.theatlantic.com