Video – Immigration Politics in the Trump Era: Muzaffar Chishti
In early May, in the wake of the Trump administration’s evolving immigration policies, the Murphy Institute convened national and local
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What labor should learn from Trump’s victory: Responding to Cohen, Weingarten and Casey
Unlike Hillary Clinton, a one-time member of the Walmart board of directors, Sanders has been a lifelong friend of labor with the record to prove it. It was Sanders who represented the leftwing of the possible, not Clinton. Moreover, a Sanders presidency was certainly…
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Trump’s Odd Allies: Union Members
So no surprise then that union members voting in the Republican primaries vote for Trump at significantly higher rates than other GOP voters. This, after roughly two decades of energetic, expensive and, until now, fairly successful efforts on behalf of the AFL-CIO to educate union voters and their families. This makes perfect sense; after years of making it clear that corporate friendly free trade deals were harming workers, why wouldn’t Republican union members square the circle by going for Trump?
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