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...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 7, 2017 | Blog
The U.S. Senate has now passed the most significant tax “reform” legislation since 1986. The legislation, most pundits believe, will likely become the new law of the land within weeks. What will that mean? We already have all sorts of numbers from reputable...
by Tim Wilkins | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog
[fve]https://youtu.be/JxcQb42a4XM[/fve] The nation's housing crisis has reached emergency levels. Instead of meeting the challenges of the crisis, elected officials are supporting a budget and tax scam that will only aggravate the situation for low-income and...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog
Republican Senator Charles Grassley tells the Des Moines Register his party's plan for deep tax cuts to the rich "recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog
“I’d like to think of myself as ordinary,” says Ross Grooters as he describes his life in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, an eastern suburb of Des Moines. But then he corrects himself. “Most people’s passions or enjoyment are not going out and doing activist things, so that’s...
