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Kansas And Puerto Rico Show How Trump's Tax Cuts Will Hurt Us
Reagan and both Bushes cut taxes for the rich and their corporations, promising that the "benefits" would "trickle down' to the rest of us. So did Kansas and Puerto Rico. How'd that work out for them -- and us?
The People Organize To Stop Mnuchin
Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin is having his hearing today in the United States Senate. Will you make a quick call to your senators to oppose his candidacy?
Progressive Breakfast
TAKE ACTION Call your senators: Demand they say no to Mnuchin Donald Trump’s Corporate Coup marches on. Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s pick to steer our economy as Treasury Secretary, is a multimillionaire hedge fund banker who profited off the backs of hard-working...
Does Betsy DeVos Care About Racial Equity? We Still Don’t Know.
It's not surprising someone who has never been a teacher, never run a school, never served as a public official official overseeing education, and never been engaged in scholarly work on education is not well versed in education policy.
Why This Price Is Wrong
The next health secretary shouldn’t have a record of benefiting from prescription drug profiteering. Profiteering shouldn’t be at the heart of our health care system — we need less corporate control of our health care, not more.
Progressive Breakfast
TAKE ACTION Tell Your Senators: Say No to Corrupt Tom Price Today, Rep. Tom Price, Donald Trump's pick to run Health and Human Services has his first nomination hearing. But ethics experts are already raising red flags. Over the weekend, CNN reported that a week after...
Millions of Reasons – Plus One Big One – To Block Tom Price's Nomination
People's Action has launched a petition to block the nomination of Tom Price as Health and Human Services secretary, after hearing from hundreds of people who would be harmed by the health care law repeal Price favors.
Speak Loudly and Carry a Big Aluminum Bat
To preserve a vital American manufacturing capability -- aluminum smelting -- against predatory conduct by a foreign power, the administration must speak loudly and carry a big aluminum bat.
Three Reasons John Lewis is Right That Trump Is Illegitimate
Donald Trump is not only morally an illegitimate President, but actually an illegitimate President who would not have won, but for (1) voter suppression, (2) Comey’s letter, and (3) Russian intervention aimed at helping Trump.
Progressive Breakfast
Ethics Cloud Hangs Over Cabinet Noms Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos hearing today, The Hill: "[DeVos will be] face-to-face with liberal stalwarts Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). DeVos’s vocal support of school choice and charter...
