To avoid becoming the foil for Right Populism, Left Populists need to respect working-class values of work, family, community, patriotism, and the aspiration for stability and security.
David Kusnet
David Kusnet was the chief speechwriter for President Bill Clinton from 1992 to 1994 and the author of Speaking American: How the Democrats Can Win in the Nineties,plus Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America’s Best Workers Are More Unhappy than Ever.
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Affordable Housing with a Union Label
Co-op City, the mammoth moderate-income Bronx housing complex, long a New York mainstay, offers lessons on what does and doesn’t work.
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The Book of Jobs
For much of his career, Uchitelle has covered the casualties of the transition to the new economy. In 1996, he was the lead writer and reporter for a six-part Times series on “The Downsizing of America,” which reported that more than 43 million jobs had been wiped out in the United States between 1979 and […]
