Date: 2024-04-28 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00020177
Media / Headlines
Jacobin Magazine
Jacobin Magazine ... January 24th 2021
Peter Burgess
Read my lips: $2,000 checks for all, now. Jacobin news@jacobinmag.com via gmail.mcsv.net 10:10 AM (14 minutes ago) to me
--------------------------------
Read my lips: $2,000 checks for all, now.
Late last year, at the urging of Bernie Sanders and House progressives, Democrats were forced to break from their proclivity for complexity and issue a simple “read my lips”–esque promise to deliver $2,000 survival checks.
The proposal was nearly universal and so straightforward that it helped Democrats win two Senate seats in Georgia, a longtime Republican stronghold.
And yet, despite the fact that the $2,000 checks proposal is enormously popular, the party has almost immediately reverted back to form, slowly but surely trying to complicate the idea to the point where it’s becoming unrecognizable, complex, and a proof point for those who believe Democrats refuse to just do what they promise.
On Monday, Biden declared that the once-simple proposal is now “all a bit of a moving target in terms of the precision with which this goes,” adding: “There’s legitimate reason for people to say, ‘Do you have the lines drawn the exact right way?”
Read more
--------------------------------
Here's the latest...
- Jabari Brisport is one of six socialists now in the New York State Legislature, the most in a century. We spoke to him about how he came to democratic socialism, how elected officials can help build working-class power, and why his top policy priority is to tax the rich.
- The Chicago Teachers Union is locked in a standoff with the mayor as teachers defy orders to return to in-person teaching. If the mayor doesn't back down, she'll have a big fight on her hands — one that could look like the 2019 CTU strike that lasted fifteen days.
- New research shows stay-at-home orders and eviction bans are key to stopping the spread of COVID-19. But Gov. Gavin Newsom is ignoring that research and reopening California with a weak eviction moratorium.
- Bernie Sanders is pushing a new proposal as part of the stimulus bill that would give everyone free health care during the pandemic. His plan would get us qualitatively closer to Medicare for All — and we should all rally behind it.
--------------------------------
“Biden Our Time”
Our new issue looks back at the chaotic last four years of American politics, the important implications of the November elections, and what it will take to build a left-wing oppositional movement for justice and peace in the Biden era.
Featuring Jacobin contributors like Matt Karp, Meagan Day, Alex Press, and Natalie Shure, it's an edition you won't want to miss.