Archive: WCP

• WCP: Predatory Lenders Making American Nightmares From American Dreams

  As if losing their homes during the foreclosure crisis was not cruel enough, working-class families are now being lured by predatory lenders into deceptive rent-to-own contracts. As Wade Rathke expl

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Housing, Akron, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosures, Great Recession, John Russo, Philadelphia, Rent-to-Own Contracts, Sherry Linkon, Wade Rathke, Wall Street, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: More than Cash: What It Really Takes to Address Poverty

  To address poverty in the global south we must do more than build schools or put cash in people's pockets. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Dominique Hess argues that real change begins wit

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Development, Dominique Hess, Girls, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Women, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Universal Basic Income: A “Social Vaccine” for Technological Displacement?

  Take it from someone who witnessed the severe impact of deindustrialization on working-class Americans: lofty rhetoric and grand promises cannot disguise the massive economic displacement that will

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Deindustrialization, Economic displacement, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Russo, Robots, Sherry Linkon, Technology, Unemployment, Universal Basic Income, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Youngstown

• WCP: The Working Class at the Oscars

  Portrayals of working-class people in popular culture often depend on stereotypes, yet this year's Oscar-nominated films are a pleasant exception. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Jack Metz

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Fences, Films, Hell or High Water, Hollywood, Jack Metzgar, John Russo, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, Movies, Oscars, Sherry Linkon, Stereotypes, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Classing the Resistance

  The resistance movement of 2017 has inspired mass mobilization across the country, but it has not yet emphasized social class or economic justice. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sherry Li

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Donald Trump, Economic Justice, Jack Metzgar, John Russo, Resist, Resistance Movement, Sherry Linkon, Social Class, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country

  Most Americans envision the rural areas where Trump drew most of his support as predominantly white and working class. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Kalmanovitz Initiative research analy

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Donald Trump, John Russo, Kalmanovitz Initiative, Patrick Dixon, Poultry Industry, Poultry Workers, Rural, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Fractions within the Working Class

  As Allison L. Hurst writes in this week's Working-Class Perspective, discussing the working class in the U.S. as a unified block ignores the immense complexity and diversity of working people. Even

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: 2016 Election, Allison L Hurst, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives, Working-Class Voters

• WCP: Neil Gorsuch and Religious Liberty: Class Dismissed

  Neil Gorsuch was nominated to be a Supreme Court Justice largely because of his concern for religious liberty. Yet as Ken Estey explains in this week's Working-Class Perspective, Gorsuch has priorit

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Class, Hobby Lobby, John Russo, Ken Estey, Neil Gorsuch, Religious liberty, Sherry Linkon, Supreme Court, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: A Working-Class Appreciation for the National Health Service

  The National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain provides universal access to all levels of health care with no payment required at point of service. As Sarah Attflied describes in this week's Wor

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Great Britain, Health Care, hospitals, John Russo, National Health System, NHS, nurses, Privatization, public services, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Is the Worst Yet to Come for Unions?

  Union membership and power in the public sector have been steadily decreasing for decades, but recent court challenges and an influx of right-to-work laws are about to make a bad trend even worse. In

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Collective Bargaining, John Russo, Public Sector, right to work, Sherry Linkon, Union Density, Union Membership, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives