When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
From our friends at the Prison Policy Initiative, this great infographic about how felony disenfranchisement could affect the presidential election. Click here for a bigger view of the graphic.
And PPI's Leah Sakala has been blogging about prison-based gerrymandering (distortions to electoral and legislative districts from prisoners being counted where they're incarcerated vs. their original homes) and how it could affect this year's elections at the PPI blog (here).
More posts soon.
--Chris Sturr
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