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Wingnut Week In Review: Southern In-hospitality
This week the South rose again and tried to go back in time more than 50 years, as former confederate states
legislated a queer new twist on Jim Crow; so much for southern hospitality.
I'm Ready To Go To Jail April 13 To Fight For Restaurant Workers
Under the banners of Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening, we will be sticking our necks out to demand an end to the destructive influence of big money on our politics and the need to enfranchise all people.
Another Argument In The Campaign Against Teachers' Unions Bites The Dust
For years, teachers' unions have been blamed for the fact that disadvantaged children are often taught by under-credentialed, less-experienced teachers. A new report shows the blame needs to be pinned somewhere else.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Are We Ready For A Global Economic Slowdown? Josh Bivens, director of research and policy at the Economic Policy Institute, assesses in this Burning Issues video segment whether the United States is ready for the next global economic slowdown. Bernie...
Burning Issues: Are We Ready For A Global Economic Slowdown?
With other large countries perilously close to recession, the next president's beliefs about using government to stimulate economic growth are important, Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute explains in this Burning Issues video.
Panama Papers Expose Another Way Our Trade Agreements Fail Us
Prohibiting the ability of plutocrats, corporations, outlaws and the worst of the worst to create anonymous shell corporations to avoid taxes and scrutiny should be at the center of our trade negotiations.
Protect America’s Consumers From Astroturf and #SaveCFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the only federal agency out to protect the financial interests of American consumers. Naturally, big money interests want to shut it down. A new campaign says, “Not without a fight.”
Why The Panama Papers Scandal Is About Cheating School Children
The Panama Papers show how wealthy people avoid paying taxes. But tax avoidance at a much smaller scale is actually quite commonplace right where you live, and the effects are most consequential on the least powerful in our society.
Bernie Sanders Is Right To Slam GE's Immoral Tax Gamesmanship
It is stunning that supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would stand up for General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt in the face of GE's record of tax avoidance.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Keep The Terror Threat In Context Paul Pillar, a former U.S. intelligence official cautions, in this installment of the Burning Issues video series, against overreacting to ISIS and against reacting without a long-term plan for addressing the effects...
