New Deal

This Labor Day, It’s Time for a New Social Contract With Workers

Freelancers Union’s Andrea Gordillo and the National Arts Policy Alliance’s Althea Erickson examine why America’s social contract must evolve to reflect the realities of independent work. Erickson and Gordillo argue that benefits should follow workers across jobs, clients and sources of income rather than depend on a single employer.

By Andrea Gordillo and Althea Erickson

The Idea the GOP Won’t Survive Donald Trump Doesn’t Hold Up to History

The Republican Party lived through Herbert Hoover, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. It won't be done in by Donald Trump.

By Will Bredderman

With Public Housing Under Attack, Can An Ex-Lehman Banker Save New York’s Last Affordable Apartments?

Stepping off the elevator on the 12th floor of 250 Broadway, you pass by a dozen photographs of idyllic, almost

By Matt Chaban

Four Companies Demo New Marketing Technology at Daily Deal Summit

By Kelly Faircloth

How ‘The New Deal’ Helped Eric Cantor Meet His Wife

By Hunter Walker

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