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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: What Donors Need to Know
CBPP is a low-key but tremendously effective think tank based in Washington, D.C. It is one of the country’s most effective progressive nonprofits working to reduce poverty and support families. Read more
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Amy Hanauer on the Battle for a More Progressive Tax System
Blue Tent editor David Callahan talks to the head of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy about why progressives need to pay more attention to tax policy—especially now. Read more
Mar 19, 2021
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How Progressive Farming Groups Are Pushing Biden and Congress
Organizations like Family Farm Defenders are looking to roll back Big Ag's growing dominance of U.S. and global food systems, calling for major reforms. What are they asking for? Read more
Mar 17, 2021
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What the Rise in Mutual Aid Foreshadows for the Progressive Movement
Whether based in neighborhoods or around identity groups, mutual aid networks are evidence of the growing push toward interdependence and away from individualism. Read more
Mar 16, 2021
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Seven Funders Behind the Movement for a Higher Minimum Wage
A minimum wage hike didn't make it into the COVID relief bill, but economic justice advocates still have a cadre of dedicated funders in their corner. Here is who's backing the fight. Read more
Mar 11, 2021
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Progressives Warn Unions: Sectoral Bargaining May Be a Trap
Big tech and major unions are both in favor of sectoral bargaining for ambiguously defined "gig workers." But a group of progressive academics and activists are warning against that. Read more
Mar 5, 2021
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What Labor Advocates Want From Biden to Protect Workers From COVID
Biden wants to revive the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which was gutted by Trump. Worker allies praise that effort, but they’re still waiting for a crucial pandemic standard. Read more
Mar 4, 2021
Felicia Wong on Challenging Neoliberalism and Reimagining Capitalism
Blue Tent founder David Callahan talks with Felicia Wong of the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank that's been laser-focused on challenging neoliberalism and calling for a new set of rules to govern the economy. Read more
Feb 12, 2021
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Who's Afraid of Cass Sunstein?
Progressives have bitter memories of the Harvard law professor's stint in the Obama White House. Now they're on high alert amid rumors that Sunstein might be in line for a job in the Biden administration. Read more
Feb 5, 2021
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Jonathan Schleifer on Winning on Healthcare and Wages with Ballots Initiatives
Blue Tent founder David Callahan talks with the executive director of the Fairness Project, an organization that's compiled an impressive record of winning ballot initiatives—including in red states. Read more
Feb 5, 2021
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The Long Battle Over Rent Control in California
Advocates backed by money from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation have spent over $45 million in the past two years to repeal an anti-rent-control measure in California. Yet they've come up short. Read more
Feb 4, 2021
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The Key Groups Powering a Growing Housing Justice Movement in California
The Golden State's decades-long housing crisis—made worse by the pandemic, with mass evictions looming—has spurred unprecedented new organizing efforts up and down the state. Read more
Jan 22, 2021
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Progressives Are Bullish on Biden's Wall Street Regulators, Despite Questions
The nominations of Rohit Chopra and Gary Gensler are being celebrated by progressives. Their regulatory backgrounds are strong, but their private sector work raises some questions. Read more
Jan 21, 2021
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Don't Call Them "Entitlements": Social Security Works Looks to Protect Economic Security
A decade spent pushing for progressive protections to entitlement programs has positioned Social Security Works to wield influence at the new White House. Read more
Jan 14, 2021
The Big 4: The SEIU's Most Powerful Locals
It's no secret that the SEIU has become a political powerhouse. Less well known is that nearly half of its four million members belong to just four local unions, providing a huge portion of the organization's worker power. Read more
Jan 13, 2021
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Here’s Why the Fairness Project Keeps Winning Ballot Initiatives
The organization has racked up an impressive track record of winning campaigns—including in red states—that have positively changed the lives of as many as 15 million people. What's its secret sauce? Read more
Jan 12, 2021
Follow These Journalists to Understand the Labor Movement
Many newspapers have divested from the labor beat even as worker organizing has been gaining steam. But a crop of upstart young labor reporters based in online progressive media are re-inventing it. Read more
Jan 11, 2021
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How New Virginia Majority is Building Power
The fact that the state turned even bluer in November is no accident. The leader of the New Virginia Majority says the key to the group's success has been putting in the work—not winging it. Read more
Jan 4, 2021
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Here's a List of Progressive Nonprofits That Have Unionized
In recent years, an increasing number of nonprofit organizations have unionized as their workforces demand that they practice what they preach. That includes a who's who of groups on the left. Read more
Dec 29, 2020
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Five Things to Know About Biden Economic Adviser Jared Bernstein
Once the top economic adviser for former Vice President Joe Biden, Jared Bernstein is expected to be a voice for progressives in the Biden presidential administration. Read more
Dec 18, 2020
