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Vail Kohnert-Yount

Vail Kohnert-Yount is a student at Harvard Law School.

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What New Workers can Learn from Old Retirement Plans: How the History of American Retirement Can Help a New Generation

For many Americans, the prospect of retirement invites dread. Modern-day employees retire later and with less in their savings accounts than their parents and grandparents. Over the past decade, the proportion of Americans working past the age of 65 has increased by 60%. Despite that, retirees are carrying more debt than ever before. And most troublingly, retirees often […]

Drawing Power: How Redistricting Can Strengthen Political Responsiveness to the Working Class 

For decades, political scientists have documented a stark reality: Economically marginalized Americans struggle to exert meaningful influence over public policy. Studies show that the preferences of low- and middle-income constituents exert “little or no independent influence” on federal decision-making, while elected officials give “no weight” to the views of constituents in the bottom third of the income distribution. The […]

Driving People Out of Work: The Trump Administration’s Commercial Drivers’ Licenses Revocation

Jorge Rivera Lujan, a Dreamer protected under DACA, runs his own trucking business; Aleksei Semenovskii sought asylum from Russia and has been driving in the U.S. for more than five years. Both have complied with every requirement for commercial licenses, yet their livelihoods are under threat. Nearly 40 years after federal regulations first recognized the importance […]

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