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Time Is Running Out To Stop Student Loan Rate Hikes
The clock is ticking on student loan interest rates. The rates for federally-backed student Stafford loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1. And what has Congress done to help these already struggling students? Absolutely nothing. Student debt now totals $1 trillion, and Congress is still deadlocked when it comes to preventing an increase in the interest rate on student loans.
Here's A Sequester Cut You'll Feel In Your Gut
Republicans are forcing cuts in programs like Meals On Wheels. Big deal, another "budget cut" to reduce the dreaded "government spending." What does all of this this mean to actual, real people?
Call To Action Today To Oppose Right-Wing Food Aid Cuts
For an estimated 4 million people, including about 210,000 schoolchildren, the farm bill the House is scheduled to start debating today could mean they will be going hungry a lot more often.
America Feeds the Rich
The Farm Bill that is expected to pass the U.S. House this week explains income inequality in America. The Republican-sponsored proposal slashes food stamps for poor children and pads farm subsidies for wealthy agri-businessmen.
We Need a New Deal for Millennials
What kind of society abandons its own young? What kind of society allows the generations in power to favor themselves over those who follow them, and then lets them claim they're doing it out of selflessness? Look around you.
Austerity Battle Heating Up In Greece
Protests in Athens and all across Greece have not abated since the ERT shutdown last week. If anything, they've intensified, into a genuine political crisis, raising talk of early elections as the ruling coalition struggles to avoid collapse
Sinking American Electorate: Millenials Losing Faith in Obama
Democrats may be in trouble during the 2014 midterm elections. Amid political controversies, an anemic economy and high unemployment, President Obama’s approval rating dropped eight percentage points in a single month.
Rick Perry Offers Country A Race-To-Bottom Death Spiral
Texas Governor Rick Perry is on a "job-poaching" trip to New York. He wants to move in one part of our country to Texas where they will be transformed into low paying jobs. This adds up to a net loss for our country, economy and society.
National Confidence Ratings For Congress Don't Matter When It Comes To The Budget
You would think that this poll showing "Americans' confidence in Congress is not only at its lowest point on record, but also is the worst Gallup has ever found for any institution it has measured since 1973" would be so embarrassing to those on Capital Hill that they would take immediate steps to change the situation.
You would be especially justified in thinking that it would change congressional behavior on the federal budget. Although the poll doesn't say it, there's no doubt in my mind that the constant and highly publicized "I'm-gonna-hold-my-breath-till-I'm-blue-in-the-face" fights over the deficit, debt ceiling, and annual budget resolution haves been the biggest factors in this totally failing grade for the House and Senate.
But it won't. Particularly when it comes to the budget it's not likely to change congressional behavior at all.
There are two reasons.
Where Uncle Sam Ought to Be Snooping
Let's place private corporations with government contracts under surveillance — to make sure no one is getting rich off our tax dollars.
