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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Trump Gets An F From Workers Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “great negotiator” and author of “The Art of the Deal,” promised to use his bargaining skills to help the American worker. Trump vowed to rewrite trade deals, stanch the...
Trump Gets An F From Workers
Photo credit: White House / Shealah Craighead / cc Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “great negotiator” and author of “The Art of the Deal,” promised to use his bargaining skills to help the American worker. Trump vowed to rewrite trade deals, stanch the offshoring of...
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MORNING MESSAGE Alex Lawson Joe Biden Has Tried To Cut Social Security For 40 Years When Washington politicians talk about Social Security cuts, they almost always use coded language, saying that they want to “change,” “adjust,” or even “save” the program. That’s...
Joe Biden Has Tried To Cut Social Security For 40 Years
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Recently, a newsletter from the Bernie Sanders campaign laid out Joe Biden’s long record of supporting cuts to Social Security. The website PolitiFact weighed in on one part of that record, a speech Biden gave in 2018 in which...
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MORNING MESSAGE Tobita Chow We Need A Real Trade Deal With China, Not Just A Truce Trump crows that the “Phase One” trade agreement with China is a “promise kept” to supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his...
We Need A Real Trade Deal With China, Not Just A Truce
Trump crows the “Phase One” trade agreement with China is a "promise kept" to his supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his trade war. This truce may not last long or deliver anything close to the outcomes he...
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MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Lies in the White House, Cancer in Our Neighborhoods Something is shaking on the cancer front that needs our full attention. The Trump administration, investigative journalist Sharon Lerner discovered, “is executing an old tobacco...
Lies in the White House, Cancer in Our Neighborhoods
The enrichment of chemical industry executives — at the same time their companies are battling attempts to regulate their toxic products — represents a far greater scandal than any vain and empty boasting out of the White House. Yet the deregulatory collusion between the chemical industry and the Trump administration continues to go largely unnoticed.
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MORNING MESSAGE David Goodner International Students Misled Into Human Trafficking Scam In Iowa Fifty-seven international students studying at a state technical college in Sioux City are being exploited in school and on the job after being lured to Iowa under false...
International Students Misled Into Human Trafficking Scam In Iowa
Antonio Diego, 24, a Brazilian student in Sioux City on a J1 visa. Photo courtesy of Sioux City Journal Fifty-seven international students studying at a state technical college in Sioux City are being exploited in school and on the job after being lured to Iowa...
