Today's Ideas & Actions
May 22, 2013
Give Students The Same Break Banks Get
TAKE ACTION While college students struggle under an unprecedented debt burden, big banks are now enjoying interest rates of almost zero. 
Join Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, CAF and Daily Kos in telling Congress to pass her bill that would give students the same rock-bottom interest rates as the big banks. Click here to tell your senators: Co-sponsor Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act.
Campaign To End 'Dumb' Budget Cuts
With millions out of work and the economy in trouble, the federal budget sequester is not just dumb, but dangerous. So we launched a campaign to build political pressure to repeal the sequester, including an online petition drive, public education effort and media appearances.
Follow our continuing commentary on the sequester madness and the winning arguments you can use to help end it »
Fix The Debt CEOs Add To The Debt
A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Campaign for America's Future shows how the corporate CEOs leading Fix the Debt, an organization that has helped fuel the austerity agenda in Washington, are themselves contributing to the debt as their corporations deduct their outsized compensation packages from their tax bills. Read the report »
We're working to put the plight of minimum wage workers back on the agenda. They need a raise, and the economy won't grow until they and other low-wage workers see their incomes rise.
Sign our petition to Congress: Vote for the $10.10 minimum wage bill » Help us spread the message » Read our series on the minimum wage »
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Apple Pie is American, But Apple Computer Isn’t. Not Anymore.
Did you know that Apple Computer was a foreign entity? Did you know that it’s more Irish than anything else, at least as far as taxes are concerned? Or that it pays very little in income tax, even though its products wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for projects funded by US taxes? Apple products were [.
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Double Trouble: Get Ready For The Next IRS “Scandal”
Yes, they're already on it. I wrote about this building pseudo-scandal the other day, and it appears it's gaining steam.
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Let’s Tell Multinational Corporations To Just Pay Their Taxes
At yesterday’s Senate hearing the CEO of Apple said they follow the law when they “defer” billions and billions of dollars in taxes they owe by keeping profits “out of the country.
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Republican Response To Sequester: It’s Bad. Let’s Make It Worse.
Republicans have been eager to blame the sequester on President Obama, and complain when certain cuts affect their districts.
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Underwater Homeowners Demand Justice from Justice (Video)
On Monday afternoon 27 people were arrested in front of the Department of Justice and put behind bars. Their crime: Being sick and tired of Washington bailing out banks while there is no bailout for those among the other 99 percent of the country who are drowning in underwater mortgages.
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Don’t Break Out the Bubbly Yet: 20 Million Americans Still Need Jobs
February’s unemployment numbers were better than the average job creation for the previous three months. The new jobs figures -- an additional 236,000 jobs in February with unemployment edging down to 7.7 percent -- reveal an economy that keeps chugging along against rising headwinds. But don’t break out the bubbly. We are still in a debilitating jobs recession. There are still more than 20 million people in need of full-time work.
