The author's audience is progressives. If these sorts of solutions become palatable on the left they'll likely find enough support on the right to get done. Bra

The author's audience is progressives. If these sorts of solutions become palatable on the left they'll likely find enough support on the right to get done. Branding these as progressive policies likely helps lower progressive reticence to enacting supply-side policies. It's not purely cynical, of course -- TFA demonstrated that these efforts help people in lower-income groups more (by some measures) than they help people in upper-income groups.