Archive:What’s Happening at the KI
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WCP: A Working-Class Bill of Rights
A Working-Class Bill of Rights: The principles of equality, opportunity, and justice that are so often invoked by American leaders have always been more about aspirations than reality. What would it
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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Congratulating CCHD on 50 Years of Service
The Kalmanovitz Initiative congratulates the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) on 50 years of work fighting poverty and inequality in the United States. This May, KI was a proud sponsor
Category: Updates
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WCP: The Healing Web of Solidarity: Lessons from a Favela
Alongside the medical crisis of the pandemic, we've seen deepening challenges for mental health care in the US, as poor and working-class people struggle to find -- and to afford -- treatment for dep
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Labour and the Working Class in the UK
Last week's byelection in the UK brought a raft of losses to the Labour Party. Working-class voters used to be a rock-solid base for Labour, but no more. As Tim Strangleman explains in Working-Class
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Amazon and the Southern Key
In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Wade Rathke argues that while we shouldn't be surprised that the recent effort to unionize Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama failed, the campaign reminds us
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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Wrap Up: Constructing a New Social Compact
Thank you for registering for “Constructing the New Social Compact: A Public Forum on Empowering the Post-Pandemic Working Class,” organized by the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Po
Category: Updates
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On May Day: The Enduring Importance of Labor Unions
This was originally published in The Jesuit Post. “Unions used to be important, but they’re not necessary anymore.” It’s a line many of us have heard. We often associate unions with particular
Category: Updates
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WCP: English Football and Working-Class Culture
The recent announcement that some of the top football clubs in Europe were going to form a separate elite league drew immediate protests from fans. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Sarah Attf
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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Race, Tax Enforcement and the Social Compact
Restructuring tax enforcement is a matter of fairness, anti-racism and smart revenue raising – there has never been a more important moment to properly fund the IRS.
Category: Updates
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“What Happened?” Photo series by Tom Conway
Photographer Tom Conway’s photo series, “What Happened?” submitted as part of Constructing a New Social Compact: A Public Forum for Empowering the Post-Pandemic Working Class.
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