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Sandbagging Customers for Fun and Profit
Wells Fargo has just been hit with the biggest banking consumer fraud penalty ever. Yet the bank’s execs are walking out the door with multiple millions in bonuses. Can we stop them?
If You Liked the Bush Economy, You'll Love Trump's Economy
President George W. Bush tried to grow the economy by giving corporations and the wealthy lower taxes and less regulation, and sparked a global economic meltdown. Trump would do it all over again.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Economic Plan Right-Wing Rehash Trump reveals new economic plan, with "few details." NYT: "...Trump largely reiterated a broad economic vision he outlined in Detroit last month, vowing to slash taxes on business and scale back federal regulations ... He partly...
Stiglitz Speaks: Globalization's Grand Failure, Apple & Bad Trade Deals
Joseph Stiglitz discusses tensions between globalization and democracy, and what the euro experiment tells us about the need to resist bad trade deals like the TPP and bad tax deals that favor big corporations like Apple.
Anti-Pipeline Movement Gathers Steam
Thousands of Native Americans at Standing Rock in North Dakota are protesting a pipeline project that puts their water supply at risk, threatens to plow up their sacred sites, and would worsen climate change.
Progressive Breakfast
Campaign Battle Over Child Care NYT compares child care plans: "He proposed requiring employers to give six weeks of maternity leave ... New mothers would be paid the same amounts they would collect in unemployment benefits if they had been laid off, which is usually...
Is Donald Trump The Charter School Industry's Worst Nightmare?
Presidential candidate Donald Trump's full-throated support for school choice is the ill-conceived, grandiose, and politically polarizing gesture that many charter school proponents feared most.
Minimum Wage Increases On the Ballot In Four States
This election isn’t just about whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be president. Ballot initiatives will give voters the chance to raise the minimum wage for workers in four states.
Trump Dodges His Racist Past In His Latest Black Voter Outreach
Members of Michigan People's Campaign appeared during Donald Trump's visit to Flint, Michigan to demand he answer for specific instances of racial discrimination by him and his companies.
What Clinton and Millions of Workers Have in Common: Going To Work Sick
This weekend we learned that Hillary Clinton has been doing something that millions of other Americans also do: going to work sick. The difference is that too many American workers don’t have much of a choice.
