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Your Prospect Weekend Reads
Week of 8/30/2021
Stories from the week you don't want to miss!

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A man dressed as Uncle Sam protests recent vaccine mandates before the
Homecoming Concert in New York's Central Park, August 21, 2021.

As Children Head Back to School, Partisan Politics Threatens Their
Learning and Safety
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Co-Founder Robert Reich asserts that schools must model the true meaning
of freedom in a democracy.

Private Equity's Potential Payday From Build Back Better
:
Hundreds of billions of dollars are scheduled for industries private
equity dominates. Executive Editor David Dayen says that advocates want
to make sure workers and families benefit, not financiers.

Helping the Powerless Build Power
:
Editor-at-Large Harold Meyerson speaks with Pablo Alvarado, the founder
and co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing
Network. Here, Alvarado recounts his trajectory from El Salvador to
organizing a group of laborers previously thought of as unorganizable.

Merrick Garland Is Failing His Biggest Test
:
Contributor Eleanor Eagan argues that, through either trepidation or
cowardice, the Justice Department has shrunk from the onslaught of
conservative legal opposition to the Biden agenda.

Why Pfizer's Friends Want Biden to Intervene in Brazil
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Contributor Sarah Lazare explains how the pharma giant is trying to
squash a bill that would expand vaccine access.

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launch, the Ford Foundation, Open
Society Foundations, UIC Center for Urban Economic Development, and the
Prospect, gathered leading workers' rights and economic justice
advocates to reflect on the past and future of the worker center
movement.

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