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Walmart’s Top-to-Bottom Taxpayer Subsidies
Low-income families weren’t the only ones hurt by cuts to food stamps last fall. Top Walmart executives also took a hit. But Walmart’s board rejiggered bonus criteria so executives could reap “performance” payouts, at taxpayer's expense.
School Discipline Reform: A Model For Bottom-Up Improvement
A new report provides promising new strategies for reforming the nation's school discipline policies. It may be even more important to recognize how the new direction in discipline policies came about.
Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Up In April
Imagine that American factories and other businesses had received $44.2 billion more in orders last month, and every single month, and you can visualize the effect of this.
Progressive Breakfast
GOP Whiffs On Climate Republican attack on rules has been pathetic, says TNR's Danny Vinik: "...when you take a closer look at those arguments: they quickly fall apart. What’s more, Republicans had months to develop their position ... Yet, their three arguments...
Sanders' VA Bill Gives GOP A Chance To Actually Care About Veterans
Sen. Bernie Sanders is introducing an update of the Veterans Administration bill that Republicans filibustered in February. Will Republicans vote to solve the VA scandal or milk it for political gain?
GOP Gets Lost In Search For Highway Funds; Will Senate Find The Way?
A group of senators meets Wednesday to discuss sources of federal funding for transportation projects. Let's hope they come up with something better than the stinker left by the House Republican leadership.
Thomas Piketty And Elizabeth Warren On How To Fight Income Inequality
Thomas Pickety and Sen. Elizabeth Warren discuss why it is that the rich are getting richer, and everybody else is getting poorer, and most importantly, what we can do to fight it.
Sherrod Brown On Expanding Social Security [Audio/Video Interview]
Earlier today we had a wide-ranging conversation with Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio about the fight to expand Social Security and the social safety net.
Why I Marched On McDonald's
For all the gains we have been making, the treatment of low-paid workers by some of the most profitable corporations in the world ranks high in the more significant causes of the growing inequalities in the U.S.
Worth Bragging About: Better Workers, Not Bigger CEO Pay Packages
Congress figured that investors have the right to know when CEOs are shoving such big hunks of the corporate profit pie into their maws that workers are starved and investors cheated.
