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The GOP Tax Bill Is Creating Jobs - Just Not in the U.S.
The Republican tax law encourages outsourcing because it charges corporations just half the tax rate on foreign profits that it charges on domestic earnings. It’s hard to imagine a stronger lure for corporations to pack up their plant and equipment and ship them offshore. It’s right there in another part of the law: The more U.S. corporations shift factories and other sources of production overseas, the lower the U.S. taxes are on their foreign profits. It’s almost as if the GOP law was designed to promote outsourcing.
Progressive Breakfast
House Passes $867b Farm Bill House passes $867 billion farm bill, sending it to Trump. The Hill: "The House on Wednesday passed an $867 billion farm bill to help those in the agricultural industry, sending the legislation to President Trump for a signature. The...
Progressive Breakfast
EPA To Gut Water Protections Trump EPA proposes major rollback of Federal water protections. NPR: "Vast amounts of wetlands and thousands of miles of U.S. waterways would no longer be federally protected by the Clean Water Act under a new proposal by the Trump...
If Democrats Fracture, This Will Be the Fault Line
Should Americans treat the nation's super rich as a distraction from more pressing concerns or a clear and present danger? No question may more deeply divide the opposition to Donald Trump, and the answer to that question, Gallup polling suggests, has changed significantly at the Democratic Party's grassroots level. Will that change now shape the imminent 2020 presidential election campaign?
Progressive Breakfast
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...
Progressive Breakfast
'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...
Progressive Breakfast
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...
