by Robert Borosage | May 24, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump’s FY 2018 budget is, the White House admits, a “message document” - at best, a marker to begin negotiations. So what is the message this White House is sending? First, it raises a long, fat middle finger pointed at the working class voters who helped to...
by Jeff Bryant | May 23, 2017 | Blog
Betsy DeVos wants to give your tax dollars to private schools and businesses and tell you it's an education "transformation." That's the main theme of an address she gave this week to a conference held by the organization she helped found and lead, the American...
by Liz Ryan Murray | May 23, 2017 | Blog, Current Issues
With its 2018 federal budget proposal, the Trump administration made public, and made plain, its priorities for our nation. Its vision for America is one where the sick, children, families and the disabled are sacrificed for tax breaks for the very wealthiest and...
by Jeff Bryant | May 23, 2017 | Blog
Joe Padilla and Egle Malinauskaite are part of a small group marching 200 miles from Chicago to the Illinois State Legislature in Springfield bringing a "People & Planet First Budget" to their lawmakers. “We're in a narrative battle to change education from a...
by Richard Eskow | May 22, 2017 | Blog
In public, leading Democrats blame outside forces like Russia and former FBI Director James Comey for their losses in 2016. But privately, many acknowledge the party needs a new direction. The Democrats' massive losses at state and congressional levels cannot...
by Mark Trahant | May 22, 2017 | Blog
The best moment for the new Trump administration was the one where the president smiled in Saudi Arabia and said only 26 words in public. This was terrible reality TV, but we all watched knowing that it was likely just a pause. Something outrageous must be coming up...
