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Income Increase In Census Report Is A Boon For Small Business
The Census Bureau data shows that despite a slow and unsteady recovery, wages are recovering well and small business owners are in their strongest position to thrive in over a decade.
What Obama's Climate Legacy Tells Us About Executive Power
President Barack Obama notes that he was able to cut greenhouse gas emissions without legislation from Congress establishing a carbon cap. This is true, but not it's not the full story.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Business Dealings Under Microscope Newsweek investigates Trump's business operations and potential for conflicts of interest: "A close examination by Newsweek of the Trump Organization, including confidential interviews with business executives and some of its...
Wednesday Is National Call-In Day To Stop the TPP
Wall Street, the multinational corporations and President Obama are pushing for a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership after the election. Wednesday, September 14, is a national call-in day to Congress to stop this.
Dishonest Don
Trump claims he’s told Americans all they need to know about his finances. But after this whole Bondi affair, it’s probably better to go with a version of the Reagan admonition when dealing with the Trump tax returns: distrust and verify.
Al Capone, Meet Wells Fargo
Chalk it up to a culture of criminality ... Bank executives need to understand that the public’s anger is deep – and justified. If Democrats like Hillary Clinton are smart, they will grasp the depth and rationality of that anger.
Progressive Breakfast
Pence Won't Call Duke Deplorable GOP VP nominee Mike Pence flinches at dubbing David Duke "deplorable." USA Today: "Pence said Trump has denounced Duke repeatedly. 'We don't want his support and we don't want the support of people who think like him,' he said. 'So,...
CEO Pay as a Menace to Our Health
The world’s first great analyst of management urged us to limit the gap between CEO and worker pay. We didn’t listen. How many more life-threatening scandals like EpiPen must we have before we do?
A Day of Action To Stop An Oil Pipeline and "Keep It In The Ground"
"Day of Action" events around the country will protest construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, while a petition drive calls for a broader halt to oil extraction.
Wisconsin's "Smoking Gun Of The Rigged Economy"
Wisconsin's privatized "jobs creation agency" is subsidizing corporations as they outsource jobs from the state. For the workers who remain, the threat of outsourcing causes their wages to fall.
