kalena thomhave
@kalenasthom
freelance journalist and researcher on poverty & inequality丨alum: @theprospect, @fordschool, the south丨kuh-lay-nuh | [email protected]
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http://kalenathomhave.com 15-05-2009 21:43:14
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The PA Legislature, led by our friend RepDanMiller declared it 'Union Organizing Week' to honor workers who have fought for their right to organize and bargain collectively at their workplace. D10 is in the house to kick things off! #EverybodysUnion #1u #UnionYes
Writing in The American Prospect, kalena thomhave does an *excellent* job on the ins-and-outs of PUCs' role in regulating prison-tech, both in California and in other states where PUCs haven't yet been neutered or eliminated by deregulation-crazed Republicans:
prospect.org/justice/2023-0…
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The Summer EBT program is permanently reauthorized in the omnibus bill. We won't again have kids going hungry because the season changed and schools closed. Our former writing fellow kalena thomhave has written about this a lot for us:
prospect.org/education/on-s… prospect.org/infrastructure…
The micromobility company cited economic headwinds and 'convoluted and expensive regulations that favor car travel' regarding its decision to leave certain smaller markets.
kalena thomhave reports:
smartcitiesdive.com/news/what-bird…
i think advocacy groups should rethink drafting election postmortems before the election! this was from Revolving Door Project and sent to reporters November 7, embargoed for this morning
It ain't easy being blue. Reporter
kalena thomhave visited Westmoreland County to report on efforts to rebuild a Democratic base there.capitalandmain.com/with-republica…
For Capital & Main, I wrote about organizing Democrats and progressives in the deep-red Pittsburgh suburbs of Westmoreland County, where the goal isn't to win (yet) but to lose less badly capitalandmain.com/with-republica…
🎙️New marcsteiner show w/ kalena thomhave & Chuck Collins 🎙️
Nevada, Delaware, Alaska, and South Dakota top the list of tax evasion-enabling states in a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies.
therealnews.com/these-us-state…
Deep dive by kalena thomhave & Chuck Collins into which states most promote secretive trusts building dynastic wealth.
No one besides rich families & the trust industry benefits from these shady deals—certainly not the host states, which often rely on the poor for their tax revenue.
What are the TRUST HAVEN states? Check out our new report coauthored with kalena thomhave
For the new issue of The New Republic, I wrote about how advocates in Alabama have spent years trying to repeal the grocery sales tax, but we saw a wave of regressive tax cuts across the country instead newrepublic.com/article/167240…
'These city agencies are all the same. The rooms hum with a hidden logic...You stand in line or you sit in sticky vinyl seats...waiting for someone else to find you in the system—the system, its distant, gleaming points of data like a gnostic cosmogony.' electricliterature.com/initial-reempl…
