Archive: News
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Apply Now for the Labor Capital Strategies Fall 2021 Fellowship!
We are now accepting applications for the Labor Capital Strategies Fall 2021 Fellowship. The Labor Capital Strategies Fellowship is jointly run by the Kalmanovitz Initiative and Heartland Capital Str
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WCP: Biden and Social Wages
Far too many Americans work full-time and still struggle to get by. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Jack Metzgar argues that several parts of President Biden's American Family Plan can chang
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Infrastructure “Deal”? No Deal for Workers and the Climate
Last week, President Joe Biden announced that "We have a deal" on an infrastructure bill. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Ken Estey argues that some groups got what they wanted in that deal,
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WEBINAR: Just Transition Strategies: Workers and the Green Revolution
On June 21, KI and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung hosted a webinar, "Just Transition Strategies: Workers and the Green Revolution." Special thanks to panelists Alexander Bercht, Mark Rowlinson, José Br
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WCP: America’s Cross-Class Romance with Mare of Easttown
In this week's Working-Class Perspectives, Kathy M. Newman ponders why so many Americans fell in love with Mare of Easttown, a depressing television series about a burned out town, an unsolved murder
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2021 LCS Summer Fellows
This summer, KI and Heartland Capital Strategies welcome 12 fellows as part of our 2021 Summer Class of the Labor Capital Strategies Fellowship. This program gives students the opportunity to gain ha
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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
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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
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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: News, 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: News, Working-Class Perspectives