by Jeff Bryant | May 30, 2017 | Blog
You and I witnessed history last week, and not the good kind. At a House subcommittee hearing In Washington, DC, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was called to defend to Congress the Trump administration’s education budget which cuts education options for poor...
by Leo Gerard | May 30, 2017 | Blog
A few hundred billion cut here, a few hundred billion slashed there, and the Trump budget proposal adds up to real crushed opportunity. The spending plan slices a pound of flesh from everyone, well, everyone who isn’t a millionaire or billionaire. For the rich, it...
by Lois Gibbs | May 26, 2017 | Blog
'Homeland Security - No more wars over oil!' That’s what families in communities across Pennsylvania were promised a decade ago. 'We’ll extract natural gas from the ground, using an unconventional process called hydrofracturing, to acquire enough natural gas that the...
by Tobita Chow | May 26, 2017 | Blog
The White House has sent formal notice to Congress that it is initiating the process to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). All evidence suggests that despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, this puts us on track to yet another corporate trade...
by Bryce Oates | May 25, 2017 | Blog
Long before the nation got to know Greg Gianforte as a body-slamming, reporter-punching candidate to Congress, I knew the guy was a jerk. Why? Because he sued his own state, Montana, to remove public access to fishing on a public riverbank near his property. He sued...
by Liz Ryan Murray, Ben Ishibashi | May 25, 2017 | Blog
[fve]https://youtu.be/ueilYCHhZ9c[/fve] There’s broad agreement across our country, and across party lines, that we need more good jobs and that we need to rebuild our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. But that’s where the agreement ends. The answers to how we...
