June 15, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Kansas, Taxes, and Deportations

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Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

The lessons of the Great Kansas Tax Cut Debacle
Want to fix the federal budget? Try collecting taxes.
Who benefits from deporting 750,000 DREAMers?
Soggy silver lining: Holland grasps the inevitability and opportunity of climate change

June 9, 2017

Sidney's Picks: UK Youth Vote, Neo-Nazis, and Libya

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Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

Youth vote costs UK Tories their majority.
How twisted property taxes hurt the poor and helped the rich.
Neo-Nazi website raised $150,000 to fight SPLC lawsuit.
Workers shut down Libya’s biggest oil field to protest deadly working conditions.

June 2, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Lyft Wage Theft, Debt Collectors, and Ethics Waivers

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The Best of the Week’s News

Lyft drivers speak out against wage theft on interstate trips.
Fed up with debt collection calls? So is Elizabeth Warren, but it’s only going to get worse.
Sorry, Trump, ”retroactive ethics waivers” aren’t a thing.
Why dropping out of the Paris climate deal is pointless.

May 26, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Doctor-Assisted Suicide, The American Health Care Act, and Jared Kushner

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Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

A Canadian labor leader’s legacy: Facing death without fear
The CBO score for the American Health Care Act is so bad, Newt Gingrich wants to kill the CBO.
The feds are eyeing Jared Kushner as more of his dubious business dealings come to light
NOLA mayor Mitch Landrieu delivers a blistering speech in support of removing Confederate monuments

May 19, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Curtains for Comey, Kiddie Psychopaths, and Malta

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Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

Donald Trump made James Comey so uneasy that he pulled the ol’ curtain camouflage trick.
Florida legislators are making bank off private education
Bad seeds? The science of child psychopaths
Panama Papers muckraker locked out of Facebook for alleging corruption by the PM of Malta.

May 12, 2017

Sidney's Picks: The Drug War, Trump's "Tapes," and Chechnya

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Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

Wag the dog much? Embattled AG Jeff Session escalates the drug war.
Today in our RealityTVo’cracy: Trump threatens Comey on twitter, hints he made secret tapes.
The president demands that aircraft carriers return to the age of steam.
Russian protesters arrested trying to deliver a petition protesting abuses of gay men in Chechnyna.

May 5, 2017

Sidney's Picks: School Choice, TrumpCare, and Fast Food Labels

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Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

The myth of “school choice” for New York City kids of color
Class Warfare: TrumpCare slashes health care for the poor to fund tax cuts for the rich
Did these 24 vulnerable Republicans sign their own pink slips by voting for TrumpCare?
Trump’s FDA doesn’t want you to know what you’re eating

April 28, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Bullets, Bodies, and FitBits

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Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

Surgeons reveal what bullets do to bodies.
The presidency is Donald Trump’s private hell.
The fight for 15 is now Democratic Party consensus.
The Tell-Tale Fitbit

April 25, 2017

Announcing the winners of the 2017 Hillman Prizes for Journalism and the 2017 George Barrett Award for Public Interest Law

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The Sidney Hillman Foundation

The Sidney Hillman Foundation is very proud to announce the winners of the 2017 Hillman Prizes for Journalism and the 2017 George Barrett Award for Public Interest Law:

Book
- Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Crown.
Newspaper
- David Fahrenthold, For reporting on the Trump Foundation and 2016 presidential election, The Washington Post.
Magazine
- Nikole Hannah-Jones, “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,” New York Times Magazine.
Broadcast
- Brendan Keefe, “Dying For Help: Fixing The Nation’s Emergency Response System,” WXIA-TV, Atlanta.
Web
- Jamie Kalven, “Code of Silence,” The Intercept.
Opinion & Analysis
- Adele M. Stan, for outstanding commentary on the 2016 election, The American Prospect.
George Barrett Award for Public Interest Law
- Penda Hair, Legal Director, Forward Justice

Ceremony will be Tuesday, May 9th in NYC. RSVP here

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Sidney's Picks: Kansas, Taxes, and Deportations

Sidney's Picks: UK Youth Vote, Neo-Nazis, and Libya

Sidney's Picks: Lyft Wage Theft, Debt Collectors, and Ethics Waivers

Sidney's Picks: Doctor-Assisted Suicide, The American Health Care Act, and Jared Kushner

Sidney's Picks: Curtains for Comey, Kiddie Psychopaths, and Malta

Sidney's Picks: The Drug War, Trump's "Tapes," and Chechnya

Sidney's Picks: School Choice, TrumpCare, and Fast Food Labels

Sidney's Picks: Bullets, Bodies, and FitBits

Announcing the winners of the 2017 Hillman Prizes for Journalism and the 2017 George Barrett Award for Public Interest Law

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