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Faith Leaders Confront Soldiers At Border th leaders to U.S. authorities: Migrants have international right to U.S. asylum. NBC: "Over 200 religious leaders and advocates gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border on Human Rights Day to send a message to the Trump...
America Wants Health Care, Not Walls
In November’s midterm elections, no issue played a larger role in fueling the People’s Wave that elected a record number of progressives to Congress than health care. It was the Trump administration’s push last year to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that helped...
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'Public Charge' Change Will Increase Poverty Proposed public charge rules could increase poverty by 5% in New York City. NY Daily News:"Up to 115,000 New Yorkers could be pushed into poverty if the federal government approves proposed changes to the public charge...
Eight Holiday Gifts American Workers Need
It’s that time of the year – the most wonderful time of the year, they say, the hap-happiest season of all. There'll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting and utility repair workers out in the snow. It’s great, all right. You know what would make it...
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Trump's Undocumented Workers Making President Trump’s bed: A housekeeper without papers. NYT: "During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and...
Join Me to Stop Trump’s Phony “Public Charge” Screen Of Immigrants
Iowa needs immigrants. So does our country - that’s the plain and simple truth. But it’s one that too many of our lawmakers simply ignore. Why? Because the Hawkeye State, like the rest of our country, needs workers – and immigrants are some of our hardest-working...
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Tax Cuts Create Layoffs, Not Jobs These companies claimed the GOP tax bill would ‘boost jobs.’ Now they’re laying off employees. ThinkProgress: "In the lead-up to the enactment of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, Donald Trump’s massive tax cut that mostly benefited rich...
GM, Jobs, and Corporate America’s Incentive to Exploit
On Monday morning, November 26, the auto giant General Motors announced plans to shut down production at five plants in the United States and Canada and shear off 15 percent of the company’s salaried jobs. The moves will cost 14,700 GM workers their livelihood. The...
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WI GOP Votes To Curb Democracy Wisconsin lawmakers reject bill to protect pre-existing conditions, set to scale back Democrats' power. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: "Just before the sun rose Wednesday, Republicans in the state Senate by a one-vote margin approved...
How This Grinch Steals Democracy
Someone forgot to tell Republicans that Holidays are about giving to others, not to themselves. We saw this last year, when they queued up to give themselves a giant tax cut for Christmas. This year, the Grinch wants to steal democracy, too. Right now, the GOP is...
