by Dave Johnson | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Who could be against fair pay and safe workplaces? Give you one guess. President Trump just signed a bill, passed by the Republicans in the House and Senate, that repealed President Obama's Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order. "Fair pay and safe workplaces"...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Public school supporters are angry at President Trump's budget proposal, which plans to cut funding to the Department of Education by 13 percent – taking that department's outlay down to the level it was ten years ago. But the target for their anger should not be just...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Wisconsin State Senator Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield) wants a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and he wants a new constitutional convention to ratify it. A constitutional convention makes for a snappy hashtag, #ConCon. But, as GOP leaders in Idaho...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
Saying on the campaign trail that Wall Street banks and hedge funds are "getting away with murder," President Trump promised voters he would "drain the swamp" and "reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics." He was playing on the public's...
by Lois Gibbs | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
Anne Gorsuch, the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, was my worst nightmare. In 1982, when I first confronted her about toxic contamination in Times Beach, Missouri, she led the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Ronald Reagan. Anne stepped down a...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to spend $1 trillion to modernize America's infrastructure. There were no specifics. As economist Brad DeLong put it, Trump only offered "plans to have plans." Now Trump has released a budget outline, and the plans to...
