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Clean Energy Investments Can Lead To Good Union Jobs – OpEd

Clean Energy Investments Can Lead To Good Union Jobs – OpEd

At the AFL-CIO convention in early June, union leaders spoke of how the Biden administration’s 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs

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Algernon Austin

Clean Energy Investments Can Lead to Good Union Jobs

At the AFL-CIO convention in early June, union leaders spoke of how the Biden administration’s 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA,...

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CounterPunch

Algernon Austin

How to Make Housing More Affordable

Home prices are up 60 percent since 2019, and purchasing the median-priced home would pose a significant financial strain for most Americans. Half of...

16.04.2026 30

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Algernon Austin

Trump Republicans Are Defunding The Tax Police, Making America Great For Rich Tax Cheats – OpEd

“Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency [in 2016]. In his first

14.04.2026 9

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It’s Time To Slash US Military Spending By Half – OpEd

“Imagine in Iran that instead of spending their wealth – billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, [they] had spent

10.04.2026 10

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Algernon Austin

It’s Time to Slash US Military Spending by Half

Imagine in Iran that instead of spending their wealth – billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, [they] had spent that money helping...

09.04.2026 8

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Algernon Austin

Is AI Born Biased? – OpEd

The bias problem with Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot was easy to see last summer when it started spewing antisemitism

27.03.2026 10

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Reduce Inequality to Address Affordability

In the United States today, the cliché is true: The richer are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The saying has to be revised somewhat...

04.03.2026 10

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Algernon Austin

Do “Soft Skills” Explain the Low Employment Rate for Black Men?

One explanation for the low Black male employment rate that has been put forth by prominent scholars is that Black men are weak in what are called...

03.03.2026 20

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Algernon Austin

Reduce Inequality To Address Affordability – OpEd

In the United States today, the cliché is true: The richer are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

25.02.2026 10

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Algernon Austin

Trump Accounts Will Increase Wealth Inequality – OpEd

Many people saw the ad for Trump Accounts during the Super Bowl. Advocates for baby bonds, publicly funded investment accounts for children,

11.02.2026 10

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Trump Get Spectacularly Richer, While Putting the Country on a Path to Poverty

Contrary to what many people may believe, Donald Trump is not a very impressive businessman. Not only has he had six businesses that went bankrupt,...

06.02.2026 10

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Trump Gets Spectacularly Richer While Putting The Country On A Path To Poverty – OpEd

Contrary to what many people may believe, Donald Trump is not a very impressive businessman. Not only has he had six

04.02.2026 10

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Can Anyone Stop Trump From Waging a Senseless War?

The United States may have come even closer to invading Greenland than most people realize. On January 18, the Associated Press reported that the...

29.01.2026 10

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The Black Jobs Deficit Cost Black America $87 Billion in 2025

In 2025, Black America needed about 1.8 million more people working to have the same employment rates (employment-to-population ratios) as White...

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The Black Jobs Deficit Cost Black America $87 Billion In 2025 – OpEd

In 2025, Black America needed about 1.8 million more people working to have the same employment rates (employment-to-population ratios) as

16.01.2026 20

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How The Affordable Rental Housing Crisis Is Hurting Hispanics – OpEd

Policies to provide affordable rental housing have been inadequate since the 1960s, and they have only gotten worse in recent years.

09.10.2025 20

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Trump Sabotages Clean Energy as Power Demand and Outages Increase

In his 2016 book, Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America, Donald J. Trump argued for a “massive rebuilding of our infrastructure.” As he...

15.07.2025 50

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Algernon Austin

It Is Time For Asia’s MAGA: A Non-Military Quad Alliance – OpEd

By Kalinga Seneviratne The current international tariff saga based on a notion of “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) ideology promoted

30.04.2025 30

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DOGE Is The Most Wasteful Government Agency – OpEd

“This is the equivalent of a major-league baseball franchise firing all of their minor-league players. It’s a huge amount of

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