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Prospect Weekend Reads
Week of January 1st
Stories from the week you don't want to miss!

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Philip Bennett, president of the Congressional Workers Union, speaks
during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on July 19, 2022.

House GOP Tries to Cancel Congressional Staff Unions
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The new GOP-led House of Representatives will try to legislate an end to
House staff labor unions. They may not be able to. David Dayen has the
story.

The Power to Green the Public Energy Portfolio
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The Tennessee Valley Authority is replacing coal plants with a gas plant
and pipeline. Read Dorothy Slater on how President Biden's EPA has the
power to change course and prevent more fossil fuel infrastructure.

The Rise of Undocumented Inflation
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Quality deterioration for consumer goods results the same amount spent
for inferior products. Those statistics, as Maroun Medlej and Donald L.
Losman describe, aren't being measured in inflation estimates.

2023: A Year for Executive Action
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The new GOP-majority Congress will likely not deliver on President
Biden's priorities. If the administration wants to implement their
agenda, David Dayen argues, 2023 will have to be a year of unprecedented
executive action.

Latin America's Pink Partnership
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Left-wing governments in Latin America are building integrated
institutions to ensure shared prosperity and security. Guillaume Long
and David Adler ask: Will the United States be willing to accept their
autonomy?

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