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Tar Heel Heist: How the Charter School Industry is Hijacking Public Ed
In my travels around North Carolina, I ask school board members, legal and education experts, and charter advocates to explain how a state that doesn't seem to adequately fund existing public schools.
Progressive Breakfast
New Social Security Spotlight Website Explains Program's Value Despite Trump’s promises, we now have to defend Social Security (again). The new Social Security Spotlight website (http://socialsecurityspotlight.org/) from the National Committee to Preserve Social...
How Trump's Grift Gave Government to the 0.01 Percent
Trump was always a Trojan horse for the 0.01 percent. And now he's forming a government of, by, and for the very elites he campaigned against. The ruthless few are in charge now.
The 'Buy America' Trump Test
Corporate-backed Republicans in Congress are pushing to strip "Buy America" provisions from a bill to help fix the country's water systems. Trump campaigned on government help for American manufacturing and jobs. How will this play out?
Trump's Protectionist Con Is Not New: Remembering The Bush Steel Tariff
Posturing as working class heroes who abandon free-market ideology to battle globalist forces is not a new look for Republicans. In 2002, George W. Bush pandered to PA and WV voters by slapping tariffs on imported steel.
Progressive Breakfast
Carrier Deal Reverberates Trump and Pence break from "free market" in NYT interview: "'I don’t want them moving out of the country without consequences,' Mr. Trump said, even if that means angering the free-market-oriented Republicans he beat in the primaries but will...
Clean Energy Victory In IL Shows We Can Still Win In The Age of Trump
The Illinois General Assembly voted to approve the Future Energy Jobs Package, a bill which would more than double renewable energy generation in the state. Our victory in this fight proves that we can still win big in the age of Trump.
AIDS Activists to Paul Ryan: "Your Budget Dreams Are Our Nightmare"
Eleven AIDS activists were arrested Thursday afternoon while staging a sit-in at the office of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. They were opposing plans to dismantle the health care programs that people living with HIV depend upon.
Tea Leaf Reading Forecasts A Coming Assault On Working People
The tea leaves -- and that's all we have from this already-secretive administration -- are telling us that things are going to be very, very bad for America's workers under a Donald "wages are too high" Trump administration.
What Happens to Medicare if Trump Supports Speaker Ryan?
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged not to touch Medicare. Now, it appears President-elect Trump is set to kill Medicare. If you do not want Congress to destroy traditional Medicare, sign this petition.
