by Tim Wilkins | Mar 17, 2017 | Blog
The “Small Business Health Fairness Act” rolls back the reliable and affordable health care small businesses have enjoyed since the passage of the Affordable Care Act ten years ago. “The proposed legislation could expose employers and employees to financial ruin,”...
by Mark Trahant | Mar 17, 2017 | Blog
Remember the sequester? Ah, the good old days. The new Trump Administration budget is short on details, but clear on direction. And we do know two things. First: If enacted, this budget would shrink the federal government to a much smaller size. Except for the...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 17, 2017 | Blog
With typical bombast, Donald Trump calls his 2018 draft budget America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again. No, it won’t make America great again. It reflects a hardness of the heart and a sickness of the spirit unworthy of the American people....
by Dave Johnson | Mar 17, 2017 | Blog
Early in this millennium, Mississippi's Trent Lott was the Senate's Majority Leader. Then it was disclosed that he had done something outside the bounds of what most Americans considered "normal" and acceptable. Lott had spoken favorably about Strom Thurmond's 1948...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, Health
The Republicans on the House Budget Committee on Thursday swung an axe on the pillars of health care security for millions of people in a tiny room in the Longworth House Office Building too small to hold the outraged people who had lined the hallway in dissent....
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog
Betsy DeVos once called public schools a "dead end." But now that she's U.S. Secretary of Education, she's suddenly all for them. At least that's what she claims now. During her nomination process, numerous reporters noted DeVos's obvious bias against public schools....
