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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...
Progressive Breakfast
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...
Progressive Breakfast
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...
Progessive Breakfast
Trump Bid For Border 'Crisis' Falls Flat A seemingly invincible communicator finds his kryptonite in prime time. Politico: "For President Trump, a prime-time presidential address to the nation was a radical experiment in conventionality. The first results back from...
Progressive Breakfast
Freedom For Cyntoia Brown Brown is granted clemency after serving 15 years in prison. CNN: "Cyntoia Denise Brown, a woman serving a life sentence for killing a man who bought her for sex when she was 16 years old, has been granted clemency, the Tennessee governor's...
Prices, Plutocrats, and Corporate Concentration
Andrew Leigh, a member of the Australian parliament, has a side gig. He just happens to be a working economist. Other lawmakers may spend their spare hours making cold calls for campaign cash. Leigh spends his doing research — on why our modern economies are leaving...
Progressive Breakfast
Shutdown May Force Evictions, End To Food Aid As shutdown drags on, Trump officials make new offer, seek novel ways to cope with its impacts. WaPo: "Trump administration officials began taking extraordinary steps to contain the fallout from the partial federal...
