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The Fight Against Payday Loan Sharks Reaches A New Phase
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is releasing the first-ever proposed federal rules that rein in payday lenders. Grassroots pressure led to the rules; we'll need more pressure to fend off the industry attack.
Who Needs To Reach Higher For Higher Education?
Michele Obama on Friday may commend City College of New York graduates for their effort to "reach higher" in education. Let's hope she also tells policy leaders and public officials to reach higher to fund it.
Crooked Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s campaign strategy thus far is to paint Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton as “crooked,” but “Crooked Donald Trump” is far more accurate. A Trump presidency would be just another scam, like Trump University.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Choosing Peace-building Over Military Engagement Theo Sitther, director of the peace-building program at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, says in this Burning Issues video that the next president needs to take on the imbalance between...
Burning Issues: Choosing Peace-building Over Military Engagement
Measure the presidential candidates on how they balance spending on militarism and on peacemaking, says Theo Sitther of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, in this Burning Issues video.
Lame Duck TPP Push Hands Trump A Powerful Issue Against Clinton
Democrats need to persuade President Obama to not bring the Trans-Pacific Partnership before Congress in the lame duck session. If he doesn't pull back, Donald Trump can use this as a campaign issue against Hillary Clinton.
Verizon Unions Deliver For American Middle Class
The long Verizon strike has ended, and the unions won. This means that the American middle class won, too.
How TPP Hijacks Democracy
This is a must-listen segment in which Richard Eskow interviews Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch describing how TPP hijacks democracy.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Fracking as Foreign Policy Charlie Cray, a researcher at Greenpeace, in the latest Burning Issues video says the United States has been promoting hydraulic fracturing – fracking – in dozens of countries around the world despite the direct environmental...
Dodgin’ Donald’s Hiding Something in Those Unreleased Tax Returns
Donald Trump contends billionaire presidential candidates get a special exemption from releasing their income tax returns. Dodgin’ Donald doesn’t want workers to find out that while they paid the IRS every week, he paid nothing.
