Poverty & Wealth

Alaska

Radical Problems and Liberal Solutions | #alaska | #politics

Back when father was a lad, you could go to college without incurring debt. Housing was affordable, and homeownership allowed for wealth accumulation over a lifetime. Payroll jobs with careers were plentiful. Decent employers provided health insurance, and the health system had not been taken over by corporations. A third of workers were represented by […]

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Arkansas

The Modern-Day Company Towns of Arkansas

This article appears in the August 2022 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. On a sweltering June Sunday earlier this summer, under the shade of a pavilion in Springdale, Arkansas’s Luther George Park, Alice Gachuzo-Colin launched her campaign for city council. The first Black woman ever to run for office in Springdale, Gachuzo-Colin […]

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