by Richard Eskow | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
Bernie Sanders unveiled his Medicare for All bill this week, and 16 Democratic senators signed on as cosponsors. The last time he introduced a bill like it, not one senator was willing to join him. They considered the idea impossible, utopian. Times have changed. The...
by Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
America’s middle class is under assault. And as our country becomes more diverse, our racial wealth gap means it's also becoming poorer. Since 1983, national median wealth has declined by 20 percent, falling from $73,000 to $64,000 in 2013. And U.S. homeownership has...
by Robert Kraig | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
Governor Scott Walker and Donald Trump claim their $3 billion subsidy to Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn will create thousands of jobs in Wisconsin. But when you dig into the numbers, the Foxconn deal looks like one of the biggest swindles in American history, a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y4xBt_pxsk[/fve] People's Action members around the country today are mourning the death of Jafet Robles, 33, an organizer with People's Action member organization Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts. Robles' body was found Monday...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog
"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow." Remember when Bill Clinton used this Fleetwood Mac nugget as a theme in his 1992 campaign? Today, as Hillary Clinton's campaign memoir goes on sale, the Democratic Party Clinton and his fellow "centrists" remade in their image...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog
“This is a disaster.” Walker Gaffney and I were at the entry of Cleveland High School in St. Louis. Broken glass speckles the floor. Black mold crawls up the sides of the stone walls. Rotted plaster hangs from the high arched ceiling. “It’s worse every time I come...
