Will Norris is an editor at Bloomberg News and a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly.
Gig workers, contractors, and micro business owners are America’s fastest-growing workforce. Both parties have ignored their plight. Democrats need to offer them portable benefits and protections from monopoly corporations that crush them.
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It was a beautiful North Carolina spring day in 2000 at the governor’s mansion in Raleigh, and Governor Jim Hunt was sprinting down the giant ruby-red stairs. I was his then-young press aide, and we were running late because he had been on the phone with President Bill Clinton. Naively, I noted something about their discussing a state issue. Without missing a beat, the governor said of Clinton, his fellow Democrat, “I was telling him what he was doing wrong with the country and how to fix it!” So began my real education in politics, which I was quickly learning…
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While Trump muscles the media and renames the Kennedy Center, history will get the last laugh. Just ask the good people of Appleton, Wisconsin.
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To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics.
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