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December 2, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

The Senate disappoints railway workers by failing to add sick leave to Biden's imposed contract; the Senate nonetheless passes the imposed contract without sick leave; a new report details the role of state attorneys general in a just transition

August 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a $369 billion investment in clean energy and arguably “one of the single biggest investments ever made on climate in the world,” passed the Senate on Sunday along a narrow party-line vote, as Fred, Kevin, and Hannah documented over the last few days, and yesterday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi […]

The Court’s “Major Questions Doctrine” Is a Canon of Deregulation — and Could Be Bad News for Labor

Jul 6, 2022 Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Last week, in West Virginia v. EPA, the Court concluded that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exceeded its authority under the Clean Air Act when it sought to regulate carbon dioxide emissions through a cap-and-trade system. West Virginia already has the damaging effect of severely limiting the EPA’s ability to “respond to the most pressing […]

July 1, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news and commentary: the Supreme Court threatens Biden’s climate agenda and other executive branch policymaking in West Virginia v. EPA; the Court denies cert to a state Covid-19 vaccine challenge; most employers do not plan on covering abortion-related travel costs; labor agencies receive budget increases; and Biden’s top labor advisor resigns. Yesterday, the […]

If Degrowth Is Coming, What Does It Propose for Workers?

May 20, 2022 Hannah Hubbard

In 2015, countries participating in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change rallied around preventing the rise in average global temperatures beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius. With an average rise of 1.5–2.0 degrees, scientists predict 70–90% loss of coral reefs globally, an explosion of natural disaster–related deaths, and displacement of up to 1.2 billion people […]

Public Banks: What Are They, and How Might They Impact Workers?

Jan 12, 2022 Travis Lavenski

Since the Great Recession in 2008, a surge of discourse regarding public banking has emerged. Commonly pushed as a core piece of progressive legislation, states including New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have recently introduced bills that would establish a state-level public bank; several cities such as Los Angeles and New York City have seen […]

The Intersectionality of Climate Change and Labor

Dec 27, 2021 Jasmine Loo

At the conclusion of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) this November, the 1.5-degrees Celsius goal remained hanging by a thread, propped up by the bold carbon commitments of smaller emitters and the adoption of the Paris Agreement Rulebook. Global warming is driving extreme weather events, such as wildfires and flooding […]

December 3, 2021
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Yesterday, over 750 organizations, elected leaders, and other individuals signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to make sure that the Build Back Better Act budget reconciliation bill maintains its paid leave provisions. In the version passed by the house, the bill would provide a near-universal benefit of four weeks paid time off […]

August 11, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

After a weekend of sluggish procedural advances, which Fred described on Monday, the Senate finally, after months of grueling bipartisan negotiations, passed a sweeping $1.2 trillion physical infrastructure package, called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of 69-30. All 50 members of the Democratic caucus in the Senate voted for […]

July 28, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

Since hitting its peak of more than 3 million shots per day in mid-April, the mass-vaccination campaign has dwindled and waned in the United States, dropping to a current rate of around half a million daily jabs, alarming government officials both in the Biden Administration and in state public health departments across the country as […]

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December 2, 2022

August 10, 2022

The Court’s “Major Questions Doctrine” Is a Canon of Deregulation — and Could Be Bad News for Labor

July 1, 2022

If Degrowth Is Coming, What Does It Propose for Workers?

Public Banks: What Are They, and How Might They Impact Workers?

The Intersectionality of Climate Change and Labor

December 3, 2021

August 11, 2021

July 28, 2021