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Trump Order to Gut ACA Rules Trump to sign executive order to gut ACA insurance rules and undermine marketplaces. WaPo: "President Trump is due to sign an executive order Thursday morning intended to allow individuals and small businesses to buy a long-disputed type...
Betsy DeVos's Attack On Public Education Is Just Beginning
Efforts to recast Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as marginalized or ineffectual are misleading. DeVos is quite pleased with the progress she’s making in her long game to change the nation's schools into a competitive marketplace.
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Clean Power Plan Repeal Unlikely to Help Coal Scott Pruitt can't stop the death of big coal. Rolling Stone: "Virtually no coal industry leader, lobbyist or hack politician believes coal has a future in America. Everyone else knows it's a dead industry walking. The...
The Republican Plan to Rob America
The Republican tax plan is a lie. It’s being sold with the promise that the tax cut will create jobs and growth. In fact, the cuts, if passed, will become the major obstacle to the very investments vital to generating jobs and growth.
How We Beat Trump's Dirty Power Play
Trump and EPA chief Scott Pruitt think undoing all that has gone before them is something to celebrate. We must resist their efforts to undo the Clean Power Plan, and push for the radical steps we need to adapt to climate change and thrive.
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WH Issues Demands To Curb Immigration WH releases hard-line immigration principles, threatening deal on ‘dreamers’. WaPo: "The Trump administration released a list of hard-line immigration principles late Sunday that threaten to derail a deal in Congress to allow...
Help the CFPB Stop Predatory Loans From Ruining Lives
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) wants to curb abuses by payday lenders, but loan sharks are spending hard to undermine its new rules. We can act now to save the CFPB, and keep people out of the payday loan trap.
Can Centrism Be a Movement? The Answer May Surprise You
Insider centrism, the time-honored kind that unites leaders of both parties with their corporate funders, will always be a plaything of the elite. But centrism emerging from the true needs of voters could conceivably become a movement.
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Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On GOP Budget The GOP is pushing through a budget through Congress that slashes Medicare, Medicaid, and other vital services. Call your representatives today at (888) 516-5820 and tell them to vote NO! on the GOP budget. House Passes GOP...
New Federal Grant Feeds Charter School Gravy Train In New Mexico
The U.S. Department of Education's new grants of over $250 million to charter school programs in states like New Mexico should prompt concern, given these schools' poor oversight and chronic disappointing academic performance.
