by Tim Wilkins | Apr 24, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard How Big Corporations Take Your Tax Dollars Big corporations claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it’s welfare for them. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018,...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 24, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality, Tax Reform
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bernie Sanders, castigator of the one percent, is a millionaire now. So are Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. Big whoop. There’s a crucial difference between these candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and the super wealthy –...
by Kat Legier | Apr 23, 2019 | Blog, Education, Election, Featured
Senator Elizabeth Warren just stepped up to support Free College For All. And it’s not just a pose. How do I know? Because I got to ask her myself – twice. I’m a freshman at the University of New Hampshire, studying sociology and studio art. Moving to the Granite...
by Tim Wilkins | Apr 23, 2019 | Blog
The gap between America’s ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is growing dramatically as wealth continues to concentrate at the top at the expense of the rest of us. One major symptom of this economic rift is the racial wealth divide, which is greater today than it was...
by Nick Schutt | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Featured
My name is Nick Schutt. I’m a third-generation farmer from Hardin County, Iowa, and here’s why I support the Green New Deal. Factory farms and corporate agribusiness are bad for our planet, bad for our climate, bad for farmers, bad for rural communities, bad for all...
by Amy Traub | Apr 19, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality
For many Americans, the words “bad credit” are like the sound of a closing door. That’s because there’s a deeply harmful, but seldom-spoken, truth about credit reporting: It ruins lives, and crushes hopes. When private companies gather data on our borrowing history...
