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Where’s that $4,000 Raise the GOP Promised Workers?
When Republicans in Congress passed a big, fat tax break bill in December, they insisted it meant American workers would be singing “Happy Days Are Here Again” all the way to the bank. The payoff from the tax cut would be raises totaling $4,000 to $9,000, the...
Progressive Breakfast
Protests Against Family Separations Spread Nationwide Marches Across the U.S. Protest Separation of Migrant Families. NYT: "Demonstrators in Los Angeles were joined by activists in dozens of other cities across the country on Thursday evening to protest the separation...
Why I’m Going to the Border for Father’s Day
As more reports surface of children seeking asylum at our borders being separated from their parents, there has been much consideration of the impact and effect on children. As Father’s Day approaches, I can’t help but wonder how I would cope if my daughter was taken...
Wage Theft: To Fight the Crime, Address the Motive
The American economy rests ultimately on trust, a mutual understanding between employers and employees that each side, in the end, will behave honorably. A fair day’s wage, as the classic formulation puts it, for a fair day’s work. This covenant gets broken, of...
Progressive Breakfast
DC Civil Disobedience To Protest DHS Child Arrests Democrats shut down Pennsylvania Ave to protest Trump’s child separation policy. ThinkProgress: "Several members of Congress risked arrest Wednesday as they protested the Trump administration’s new “zero tolerance”...
SCOTUS Just Took Away Your Right to Vote. Did You Notice?
The Supreme Court just gave a green light to racist voter purges. Their 5-4 decision to allow Ohio to take any voter off the rolls who hasn’t voted in two years and doesn’t return a postcard mailed to their house hands a dangerous new tool to the enemies of democracy...
Congress Hosts Charter Schools Roadshow, Ignores Black Parent
One of the more disturbing aspects of the push to create more charter schools was on full display during a Congressional hearing this week when charter proponents stacked the agenda with biased testimony and completely ignored the lone witness who could attest...
Why We Should Want Trump’s Hail Mary Pass on Korea to Succeed
Despite my contempt for Donald Trump, I’m rooting that his Hail Mary pass in the direction of Kim Jong-un succeeds. And I think other liberals and progressives should hope for the same. Yet even before Air Force One landed back in the U.S. from Singapore, much of the...
Progressive Breakfast
Women Win Big in VA Primaries Democratic women win big in key Virginia House primaries. CNN: "In the four Virginia competitive US House races in November, female candidates have all won the Democratic nominations, the latest example of the party turning to women to...
We The People: Watch Live
People's Action joins Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and many others in Washington, DC at 8:30-12 on June 13th for 'We The People,' a gathering of more than 1,000 grassroots organizers from across the country. Join us to...
