Saqib Bhatti argues cities can avoid financial crises through progressive taxation and forcing the wealthy to pay their fair share Story Transcript JAISAL NOOR, PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jaisal Noor in Baltimore. Detroit’s 2013 bankruptcy, the largest of its kind in history, was not inevitable, and neither is Chicago’s, but […]
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Saqib Bhatti is a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the Director of the ReFund America Project. He works on campaigns to rebalance the relationship between Wall Street and local communities by advancing solutions to fix inefficiencies in our municipal finance system that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year. Bhatti was previously a fellow at the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Prior to that, he spent several years working on Wall Street accountability at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), where he developed strategic campaigns to hold banks accountable for their role in creating and profiteering off the economic crisis, with a particular focus on municipal finance and housing and foreclosure issues.
