The only response anyone should ever give to the question: ‘How do we pay for it?’

September 16, 2019 at 9:27 am

One of the ways that corporate media spins against popular programs is by focusing on costs. We saw this on display in the Democratic debates with questions like this one from Savannah Guthrie:  Vice President Biden, thank you. Senator Harris … There’s is a lot of talk in this primary about new government benefits, […]

How to connect race and class to win against divide-and-conquer narratives

August 6, 2019 at 8:07 pm

One of the best workshops I went to this year at Netroots Nation was called “The Race Class Narrative: Putting It to Work.” Put together by SEIU and conducted by Josh Keller (SEIU Minnesota State Council), Tinselyn Simms (SEIU), and Christopher Lampkin (SEIU 1199NW), the seminar helped me answer a question I’ve had for a while: […]

13 ways it costs more to be poor

March 7, 2019 at 9:45 am

In July 1960, James Baldwin wrote the following in an article in Esquire, “Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem”: “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” This week @girlziplocked asked a wonderful question on Twitter.  What's something about being poor that middle-class people […]