by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog
Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric since 2001, is retiring. The 61-year-old will be making a well-compensated exit. Fortune magazine estimates that Immelt will walk off with “nearly $211 million,” on top of his regular annual pay. Immelt’s overall General...
by Mark Trahant | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog
I have been wondering what I should say about the Republican health care legislation in the Senate. We do know that there is a policy split among Senators about how much and how fast to cut Medicaid. We know the bill will cut taxes. But beyond that there is more...
by Sarah Chaisson-Warner | Jun 19, 2017 | Blog
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is playing political chicken with our lives. Since he and the other Republicans in his 13-member working group are choosing to draft their bill to repeal health care in secret, it’s up to us to share the stories of those who will...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jun 18, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump has made clear that there’s little room in his “America First” foreign policy for pressure on authoritarian foreign governments - whether Russia, Saudi Arabia, or China - to improve their human rights record. When it comes to human rights, as Trump told...
by Andy Spears | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog
A group of Tennessee dads gathered inside a dimly-lit parking garage on a rainy Nashville day to send a message to their senators, Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander. Their message was simple: this Father's Day, they want their senators to protect Medicaid. The assembled...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog
Given the Democratic Party's recent failures, isn’t it time to debate ideas and strategy? The populist uprising championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, now America’s most (only?) popular politician, just gathered at the People’s Summit in Chicago. Over...
