by Liz Ryan Murray | Nov 20, 2017 | Blog
During one of the worst housing crises in our history, Congress is proposing tax reform that would make it even worse – and in more ways than you may think. Some of the threats to affordable housing in the current House and Senate proposals are direct and potentially...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 19, 2017 | Blog
Republicans in Congress must believe voters are dolts. Nothing else can explain the tax bill that just passed the House with 227 Republican votes and no Democrats. No rational person would make the choices that are in this bill. Even granting that big GOP donors want...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
A giant sucking sound, louder than a freight train, noisier than a tornado, shriller than Ross Perot yelling, “I told you so,” blasted across the nation Thursday as Republicans in the U.S. House passed their tax plan. It was the terrible sound of jobs swept out of...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
When Democrats win big like they did in last week’s elections, Republicans understandably get nervous. But there's another political faction that has something to fret about: folks who've aligned themselves with what's come to be called "education reform”: the embrace...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
Nominating Alexander Azar to run Health and Human Services is like pinning a sheriff's badge on Billy the Kid. For all his polish and small-town charm, when it comes to pharmaceutical predation, the mild-mannered Azar puts blowhard "pharma bros" like Martin Shkreli to...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog
"Top-down class warfare" is what economist Paul Krugman calls the new Republican tax plans being drawn up in Congress, because both plans in the House and Senate propose "huge tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy" and eliminate scores of "credits and exemptions...
