by Libero Della Piana | May 10, 2017 | Blog
When people feel powerless - locked out of decision-making, bypassed by real governance - they turn to protest. Especially for the disenfranchised and oppressed, protest is often the only way to exert power and affect policies and practices that impact their lives and...
by Leo Gerard | May 9, 2017 | Blog
Republicans in the House last week passed the Trump-Don’t-Care bill. The legislation they called the American Health Care Act is not about improving health care at all. It would, in fact, strip coverage from 24 million Americans. The name of the bill shouldn’t even...
by Julie Chinitz | May 9, 2017 | Blog
All across the country, citizens at town hall meetings are asking hard questions to the 217 Republicans like New York's John Faso and Elise Stefanik who voted in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid. People's Action's Julie Chinitz offers advice...
by Gil Manzon, Jr., Tim Gray | May 8, 2017 | Blog
The Trump administration wants to change the way the government taxes so-called pass-through entities. In a nutshell, the Trump proposal would dramatically lower the rates this category of filers pay. This would lead to very creative tax planning at best and outright...
by Miles Mogulescu | May 8, 2017 | Blog
While France has a different system from the U.S. for choosing its President, their run-off election bore an uncanny similarity to America’s 2016 contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. French voters were offered a binary choice between Le Pen, a neofascist...
by Chuck Jones | May 5, 2017 | Blog
On day one, Trump could have saved thousands of U.S. jobs. He didn't. The New York Times recently ran a front-page story about 700 United Technologies Corp. workers who are seeing their jobs shipped off to Mexico. Along with their UTC Carrier...
