Due process
Immigration
DOGE
Rooted in Racism

The Trump administration’s unlawful removal of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador and willful defiance of court orders to facilitate his return demonstrate a flagrant disregard for due process that puts all U.S. residents in danger.

The case has become the biggest test of the rule of law so far in the second Trump administration and illustrates the threats now facing all working people if the administration’s abuses of power are left unchecked. Read more

Immigration is one of the most important economic and political issues, and a main topic of discourse and debate among policymakers and the public.

Misperceptions persist about many fundamental aspects of this crucial topic, such as immigrants taking jobs from U.S.-born workers (they don’t), immigrants not paying taxes (they do), and draining public resources (they can’t). Get the facts

DOGE announced plans to cut Social Security staff by 7,000 workers—12% of the workforce. The Trump administration also plans to shutter or shrink dozens of Social Security Administration offices around the country.

The word “efficiency” may be in the name of his initiative, but Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attacks on Social Security aren’t about efficiency.

Administrative costs are less than 1% of Social Security spending. Since almost all Social Security spending goes towards benefits, which are set by statute, gutting the agency won’t save money for participants. It will make it harder for participants to get benefits. Read more

The ongoing influence of slavery and Jim Crow means high poverty rates and low economic mobility in the South.

These are deliberate outcomes of the Southern economic development model, which is a set of economic policies that can be traced back to the end of slavery when wealthy, powerful Southerners sought to continue to extract the labor of Black men and women with as little compensation as possible. Read more

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