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...
by Robert Borosage | May 5, 2017 | Blog
The Congressional Progressive Caucus released “The People’s Budget” this week, which it dubs a “roadmap for the resistance.” Maybe the mere mention of a federal budget plan makes your eyes glaze over, but the “People’s Budget” is a dramatic document. Representative...
by Richard Eskow | May 5, 2017 | Blog
Ten. That’s how many people will die every year so Republicans can give a tax break to each of the 400 richest people in America, under the new “health” bill just passed by the House of Representatives. All in all, hundreds of thousands could die over the next ten...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 4, 2017 | Blog
Bitter partisanship. Hopeless gridlock. A tax code littered with loopholes that only special interests could love. Washington’s latest attempt to overhaul the federal tax code, the first under Donald Trump, is getting underway with all these familiar realities in...
by Jeff Bryant | May 4, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump's adamant promotion of "school choice," and his selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, put Democratic advocates for charter schools in a bind. Some Dems are now scrambling to keep the well-polished luster of the charter school brand...
by Richard Eskow | May 3, 2017 | Blog
A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that, in the words of NBC’s Carrie Dann, “a record number of Americans say that the government should do more — not less — in order to solve the nation's problems.” This is a major change from the 1990s, when most...
