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U.S. Tax Policy Can Turn on a Dime. Has Ocasio-Cortez Just Turned It?
Who gets taxed in the United States — and by how much — can change both drastically and fast. Back in early 1916, for instance, America’s richest faced income tax rates that posed, at worst, no more than a minor inconvenience. On income over $500,000, about $11.5...
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Court Blocks Census Citizenship Probe Courts thwart Trump’s bid to enact hard-line immigration agenda as Congress dithers. WaPo: "President Trump’s efforts to remake the immigration system through executive power have been repeatedly thwarted by the federal courts,...
Trump Violates Law by Taking Putin Notes
The Washington Post has reported that Trump “has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter, and ordering...
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IA Rep. Steve King Punished For Racism IA Rep. Steve King Punished For Racism. NYT: "House Republican leaders removed Representative Steve King of Iowa from the Judiciary and Agriculture Committees on Monday night as party officials scrambled to appear tough on racism...
How New Yorkers Hold New Politicians to Their Word
Photo credit: VOCAL-NY November’s Blue Wave didn’t only take place on a federal level. Democrats flipped hundreds of state legislature seats, including in New York, where they took control of the Senate for the first time in a decade. Now, the activists across the...
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Government Shutdown Enters Fourth Week Shutdown damage ripples across country. NYT: "the sharpest effects of the longest shutdown in the nation’s 242-year history are only beginning to emerge across the country. In many parts of the United States, the shutdown has...
It’s Time For A Homes Guarantee
Our nation is in a full-blown housing emergency. Today, a person working full time in a minimum-wage job cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment - anywhere in the United States. More than half of all Americans spend a third or more of their income on housing. Only one...
Progressive Breakfast
Federal Workers Protest Government Shutdown Angry furloughed federal workers protest shutdown at the White House, around the country. NBC: "'I have rent to pay,' a demonstrator said. 'I have bills I need to pay. I want to go to work.' Hundreds of furloughed government...
Tax Dollars Can Buy Happiness
Corporatists have sought to shame two clear-eyed lawmakers in recent weeks for daring to offer prescriptions to cure America's rampant economic anxiety. “Stupid” is what they tried to call new Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she became the youngest...
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Trump Forces Federal Employees To Work Without Pay Pelosi On Trump: Maybe he thinks workers can just 'Ask their father for more money.' Crooks and Liars: "Donald Trump just walked out on a 'negotiation' with Democratic leaders in what appears to be a staged stunt to...
