by Jessica Juarez Scruggs | Oct 10, 2017 | Blog
Can one emergency expense ruin your life? It can if you get caught up in the traps set millions of times each year for ordinary working people by payday loan sharks. Stephany Morales was a single mom in college, studying to be a nurse, when her toddler got a chest...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 6, 2017 | Blog
Astronomers tell us the stars we see in the night sky died many millennia ago. Their light has spent eons crossing the emptiness of space. To us, they still seem to glitter and shine, but were extinguished long ago. Last week, the Washington Post ran an op-ed about...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 5, 2017 | Blog
When the U.S. Department of Education recently announced its list of recipients of over a quarter billion dollars in federally funded grants to charter schools, charter management organizations, and charter development agencies, charter skeptics cast a suspicious eye...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog
The once-proud political project known as "centrism" is collapsing around the globe, despite increasingly desperate attempts by billionaire backers to revive it. The center-right's implosion can be seen in the weakened state of Theresa May's Conservatives in Great...
by LeeAnn Hall | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog
Nine million children in this country are at the brink of losing health coverage. What do our lawmakers say about this? Not a damn word. Why? Because they care more about themselves than our children, and our country's future. But if they won't speak up, we will. On...
by Julie Chinitz | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog
Republican leadership isn’t subtle with their looting of the public treasury these days. Last Friday, Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, resigned for sticking the public with a more than $1 million bill for his personal use of private charter...
