by Isaiah J. Poole | May 22, 2017 | Financial Reform
Mark Feuer, the Los Angeles City Attorney who helped hold Wells Fargo accountable for creating millions of fake accounts without customers' knowledge, now warns against efforts by the Trump administration and Congress to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2017 | Economy, Jobs and Growth, People's Budget
To people who argue that the resistance to President Trump amounts to protest without a plan, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has delivered a detailed and robust rebuke. Its fiscal 2018 budget proposal, subtitled "A Roadmap for the Resistance," is virtually a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 21, 2017 | Blog
Here's something that can't be dismissed with a dismissive Donald Trump tweet: An electoral wave is building that seriously threatens the stranglehold that Republicans have on electoral power around the country. It showed itself this week when an unknown, young...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, Health
The Republicans on the House Budget Committee on Thursday swung an axe on the pillars of health care security for millions of people in a tiny room in the Longworth House Office Building too small to hold the outraged people who had lined the hallway in dissent....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 7, 2017 | Health
As medicine for our health care system, it's worse than a placebo. It will do active harm to millions of people, particularly low-income people and seniors. It cuts taxes for the wealthy and corporations and dangles paltry tax credits to working people. It leaves...
