Topics people are working on:

•  Taylor
  • Public option for funeral/burial services
•  Andrew
  • Electoral college and gerrymandering
  • YIMBYs and gentrification. Building more housing units does not put downward pressure on prices
• Tom
  • Public control over finance:
    • Directing investment towards projects/firms with the greatest benefit which may not be most profitable
    • how federal reserve is governed
    • Fed lends money to banks at lower rates than those banks lend to ordinary people. So banks literally cannot lose
    • macroeconomic policy
• Ian
  • McCarthyism
• Antiwar–Nick
• Foxconn–Mary (with race-to-the-bottom policies/Chris)
• Chris
  • Capital Strike:
    • https://www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619444956/seattle-repeals-tax-on-big-business-after-opposition-from-amazon-starbucks
    • https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/being-held-hostage-by-rich-people
  • Supreme Court
    • https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/06/waiting-for-scotus/
  • Race to the bottom
  • Housing/predatory lending
  • Housing/redlining
  • Nationalizing companies
  • Meidner plan
  • How the public sector funds vast majority of R&D
  • Full employment

Anyone interested in taking these topics?

• Police abolition. I have some background on a mobile crisis response team
• A few topics filed under “selling socialism to small businesses”
  • Entrepreneurship in the Nordic countries
    • http://www.demos.org/blog/2/19/16/david-brooks-incorrect-about-northern-europe
    • http://www.demos.org/blog/3/16/16/nordic-innovation-arguments-never-die
  • Social welfare and entrepreneurship
    • https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/welfare-makes-america-more-entrepreneurial/388598/
• US at will employment law contrasted with employment law in other countries
• Professional sports lockouts
• Long term unemployment
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-terrifying-reality-of-long-term-unemployment/274957/
• A closer look at poverty, unemployment, underemployment, and cost of living.