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Julian Castro Must Now Uphold Fair Housing
One of Juliàn Castro’s first official acts as the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development should be to make concrete the Department’s duty to promote fair housing throughout its programs and activities.
A Simplified Way To Tax Multinational Corporations
The idea is to tax corporations based on where sales are made, not where profits are reported. If a company has 50 percent of its sales in the U.S., the U.S. would tax 50 percent of its worldwide profits.
Progressive Demand: "Robust, Long-Term" Transportation Funding
CAF today called on members of Congress to "quickly renew robust, long-term funding for the Highway Trust Fund" as the House prepares to vote on a short-term fix and the White House launches a public relations offensive.
Banksters Get Help But Not Homeowners?! Are We Crazy?
We need to stop caring so much about the well-being of Wall Street, and start caring about the American people and economy. No American should have to go to bed tonight worrying if they’re going to become homeless tomorrow.
It's Not Your Boss' Business!
The National Women's Law Center is asking you to: Tell Congress to support the Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act and protect birth control access for all women, no matter where they work.
A New Game Plan for Taking Down Privatizers
The outsourcing of public services to private go-getters has concentrated wealth the whole world over. The best answer to that concentration? That just may be new forms of public ownership.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Turns Up Heat On Highway Trust Fund President's week will focus on saving highway trust fund. McClatchy: "Congress this week will consider a way to avoid a lapse in funding of the Highway Trust Fund ... the White House said Obama 'will continue to urge...
Build a 21st Century Economy? GOP Stalls Even the Highway Bill.
Conservatives have blocked every significant plan for investing in jobs and growth since the stimulus. Their program – conservative austerity – has so damaged the recovery it deserves to be called what it is: economic sabotage.
Wingnut Week in Review: The GOP's Borderline Personality Disorder
Ugly Americans ran amok as right-wingers showed off their patriotism by screaming at children, and Republicans promised to block the president's efforts to stem a border crisis that fires up the basest elements of the GOP's wingnut base.
America’s Response to Child Refugees on the Border Is Downright Shameful
Those seething with so much rage and xenophobia that they’d hurl ugly epithets in the faces of children fleeing bloody violence in Central America bring shame to the whole nation. But the response of mainstream America hasn’t been much better. The media’s...
