by Lauren McCauley | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog
Despite freezing temperatures and the season’s first significant snowfall, hundreds of people from across New England turned out Saturday to demand that Senator Susan Collins finally listen to the will of the voters and reject the Republican tax overhaul. An estimated...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog
The GOP's tax rewrite hits higher education hard, but new legislation House Republicans are crafting will likely go even farther to worsen the damage. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the House education committee recently gave a preview to its new legislation, a...
by Miles Mogulescu | Dec 9, 2017 | Blog
I just received an email from Joe Biden’s SuperPac urging me to resist the disastrous Republican tax bill by donating to Biden to help defeat the Republicans in 2020. It’s one of several solicitations I’ve received from Democratic candidates and Party-affiliated...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 9, 2017 | Blog
Ford hit Michigan and its auto workers with some crappy holiday news. Instead of building a $700 million electric vehicle factory in Michigan as promised in January, Ford will construct the plant in Mexico. Ford reneged on its promise to Michigan workers just days...
by Emmanuel Cleaver | Dec 8, 2017 | Blog
I grew up extremely poor. We were so poor, our dog ran away to the dog pound; he turned himself in! I lived in this house with my momma, my daddy and my three sisters for seven years. There is no running water, there is no electricity; my grandmother lived in the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 7, 2017 | Blog
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, led by former brain surgeon and not-qualified-to-run-a-federal-agency Ben Carson, has found itself making an uncomfortable admission: Under Donald Trump, the nation's homelessness problem is getting worse. HUD put a...
