
The Coronavirus Crisis
Fed Lending Saved Corporate America. It Could Do the Same for Cities and States.
Local budgets are facing a wave of austerity that could be avoided with low-interest lending by the Fed, a new report suggests.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Local budgets are facing a wave of austerity that could be avoided with low-interest lending by the Fed, a new report suggests.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Public health experts warned that holding in-person elections would worsen the coronavirus pandemic, but Illinois, Florida, and Arizona plowed ahead.
For every homeless person in Oakland, there are four empty homes. Many are owned by a subsidiary of home-flipping giant Wedgewood Properties.
Reauthorizing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as is would preserve loopholes while leaving the agency under-resourced and vulnerable to lawsuits.
The Chicago Teachers Union has focused on the city’s tendency to provide financial incentives for Wall Street, rather than invest in public services.
Mnuchin’s biggest problem might just be his lack of intelligence.
A new ACLU report on modern-day debt imprisonment finds that courts issue tens of thousands of arrest warrants yearly for debtors owing as little as $30.
A new report claims that Wall Street’s new rental empire is characterized by aggressive rent hikes, fee gouging, and high rates of eviction.