Jail Today and Sanders

spot: Poverty is not a crime, Sanders said, according to The Guardian. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, convicted of nothing, should not be in jail today because they cannot afford cash bail. ehrp That isn't the only bright spot. Or do we At the end of July, US senator Bernie Sanders proposed a bill abolishing cash bail, long a scourge of indigent people and the activists who defend them. On 7 August, Missouri voters voted 2-1 to demolish the state's right-to-work law a rare victory for unions over Republican politicians and business interests. A number of other solutions that once seemed pie in the sky universal basic income, Medicare for all, universal pre-kindergarten now seem more, well, attainable recently than they have in the past, and may even be closer than we think. While the supreme court's recent ruling against mandatory public union fees, as well as unions' falling membership numbers, have hurt American labor, this week's ballot measure showed at least one avenue to partial recovery. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.