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House, Senate Gird For Tax Votes Congress Poised to Approve Biggest Tax Overhaul in 30 Years. Reuters: "The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress will begin voting on Tuesday on the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax system in more than 30 years, with little standing in...
Lifelong Wage Warrior Larry Mishel Takes On Trump's Tax Scam
The issue of stagnant working-class wages, which outgoing EPI President Larry Mishel has worked so hard to make prominent, is being co-opted to sell GOP tax cuts that will primarily benefit the wealthy. Even so, he counts this as progress.
Is Betsy DeVos About To Pump Up The School-To-Prison Pipeline?
Students frequently suspended from school are at high risk of getting involved with the criminal justice system. The Obama administration set up new regulations to address the school-to-prison pipeline. Now Betsy DeVos is undermining them.
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GOP Scrambles To Pass Tax Cuts, Avoid Shutdown GOP faces 5-day scramble to pass tax bill, avoid government shutdown. WaPo: "Republicans return to Congress on Monday facing a packed agenda with little time to enact it, as party leaders aim to quickly pass their massive...
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GOP Scrambles To Line Up Votes For Tax Bill Rubio says he will vote no on Republican tax bill without changes, other GOP senators voice concern. ThinkProgress: "One of Congress’ most spineless senators has thrown a wrench in the Republican Party’s plan to overhaul the...
The Grand Tax ‘Bargain’ Is Just a Bigger Bonus for the Rich
The GOP's House and Senate conferees, everyone imagined, would make a compromise on tax cuts that fell somewhere between their plans. They did no such thing. They simply found a way to give even more to America’s super-rich.
Why Republicans Are Rebooting the For-Profit College Industry
A controversial rewrite of the Higher Education Act turns back the clock to when predatory for-profit colleges and lenders could purchase government officials and political appointees, then cripple students with debt and worthless degrees.
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GOP Sprints To Enact Tax Cuts Republican tax bill in final sprint across finish line. NYT: "The day after suffering a political blow in the Alabama special Senate election, congressional Republicans sped forward with the most sweeping tax rewrite in decades,...
Charles Barkley's Wise Words to Democrats on Alabama
Former NBA star Charles Barkley calls Doug Jones' Alabama Senate win "a wake-up call for Democrats to do better for black people and poor white people." If Democrats were to follow his frank advice, over their own, they might actually win.
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Black Vote Elects Jones In Alabama African American voters made Doug Jones a U.S. Senator in Alabama. The Atlantic: "Election day defied the narrative and challenged traditional thinking about racial turnout in off-year elections and special elections. Precincts in...
