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Analysis Steve Peraza Analysis Steve Peraza

NYS Child Care and Governor Hochul at the Democratic National Convention

On August 19, 2024, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul delivered a spirited speech in support of the presidential hopeful Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Quite surprisingly, Governor Hochul raised the specter of runaway child care costs as a common issue facing middle class Americans, which, in turn, raised questions about what the governor of New York will do to lower these costs here in the Empire State.

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Analysis Steve Peraza Analysis Steve Peraza

Toward a Permanent Workforce Compensation Fund: Notes on Key Sources

Journalists are credited with writing the first draft of history. As a professionally trained historian and budding journalist, I take pride in documenting people, places, things, events and ideas. Just as honorable, to me, is highlighting the primary sources that will help students of the moment and students of the past understand the complexities of right now. Primary sources are data for historians – they are artifacts produced in the time period one is studying that bear direct relation to the topic under investigation.

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Analysis Fernando Luengo Analysis Fernando Luengo

Yolanda Díaz Says Labor Is Not a Commodity: A Serious Mistake

In the capitalist system, writes Fernando Luengo, “Workers offer their labor power to the owners of the means of production, who buy it in exchange for a wage. This is the essence of capitalism; far from being a peripheral or irrelevant issue, I would say that it constitutes one of the keys that explain the operation and reproduction of the system.”

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Analysis Melissa Pérez Sancho Analysis Melissa Pérez Sancho

The Struggle for Quality Employment in the North Country: Beyond Prisons and the Military

In this article, I wanted to go beyond simply presenting statistics to illustrate the extent of unemployment or economic insecurity in the North Country. I thought it was important to discuss how dependence on the military-industrial complex and the prison-industrial complex make the region's economy vulnerable, negatively impacting workers and their families.

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