The Washington Lawyers Committee recently released a report showing racial disparities in fare evasion enforcement by the Metro Transit Police.
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Metro Transit Police target Black youth for fare evasion, report says
Don’t repeal a fair wage for D.C. workers
A tipped restaurant worker discusses why she supports Initiative 77 and why you should too.
Traveling exhibit visualizes redlining and systemic inequality
“Undesign the Redline” is an interactive look at how the effects of discriminatory selling practices present in the 1930s housing market still affect low-income neighborhoods today. The Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND) featured the exhibit as the centerpiece of its annual meeting and housing expo this year and in its downtown D.C. office throughout June.
A City Council Candidate On Homelessness
David Schwartzman, the DC Statehood Green Party candidate for D.C. Council At-Large, writes about D.C. human rights violations.
Wage theft
A look at wage injustices
Ahead of the “State of the District” address, residents held their own forum on ending displacement
On March 15, Mayor Muriel Bowser delivered her fourth State of the District Address at UDC. Hour beforehand, community organizers held a “The People’s State of D.C.” rally outside of the university.
Open your big mouth!
On March 12, ten years after the financial crisis, I again joined the Fed Up Campaign (the “green shirts,” as they have been named by the government bureaucrats), along with members from Spaces D.C., to march on Wall Street.
Discrepancy in City’s Median Income
Funding for housing programs is based on the area median income as determined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The District is at a disadvantage because HUD defines the AMI to include all of the D.C. Metro Region, which means more affluent parts of Maryland and Virginia affect the data.
Fighting Back for the Little People
Gary Minter offers his take on how federal tax code could be re-written to benefit the “little people”.
Pass Social Security Protections
Jennifer McLaughlin makes the case for House Resolution 4547, the Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018
After 50 years, organizers reignite MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign
Earlier this month organizers hosted a mass meeting in D.C. as a revival of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, where grassroots activists and clergy leaders called for an end to systematic racism, inequality, and other forms of oppression in the District.
In favor of a People’s Dividend
A former State Department accountant calls for a guaranteed annual income to help address extreme inequality.
How inequality became the big issue troubling the world’s top economists
After a riveting keynote speech from Neil McInroy at this year’s Global Street Paper Summit, it is clear that social inequality is becoming a greater focus for economists. In a recent feature for The Conversation, Steve Schifferes, professor of financial journalism at the University of London, takes a deeper look at why social issues are increasingly being viewed as an economic problem.
Bridging the wealth gap: Former U.S. Labor secretary calls for ‘progressive populism’ to tip the scales for the working class
Article explores Trump’s effect on the poor and the middle class and vicious cycles of wealth distribution in the U.S.A.
The day the GOP tax bills were reconciled by Congress, in photos
Democrats held a rally on Dec. 13th outside of the U.S. Capitol in the freezing cold to denounce Trump’s new tax bill
Congress, it’s giving season
A letter to Congress.
Why does hardship still exist?
Poverty must not survive. The notion that poverty will be around, in spite of efforts to alleviate the hardship it creates, is one of those… Read more »
The diary of a capitalist
A vendor denounces capitalism.
The real cost of rising prices in D.C.
With D.C.’s rising cost of living, lower wages push working folk to the suburbs.
Southeast D.C. residents march in “grocery walk” against food deserts
D.C. residents took part in a “grocery walk” in protest against the lack of healthy food access in Southeast D.C. Together, Wards 7 and 8 have only three grocery stores to serve more than 150,000 residents.
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