by Leo Gerard | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump had Harley-Davidson executives and employees over to lunch at the White House last week and reiterated his promise to end wrong-headed trade policies that enable foreign countries to eat American workers’ lunch. Trump reassured the Harley...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
This is going down to the wire. Senate Democrats, channeling public opposition to Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education while venting their own outrage over her lack of qualifications for the job, are occupying the Senate floor for 24 hours...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
The post-inauguration wave of protests is continuing and morphing. Over Super Bowl weekend, some of the biggest took place in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida and Roseville, California. Many of these protests are aimed...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
Another new study on the devastating impact of the Great Recession — on the middle class — has just come out, this one from the Hudson Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank. America’s richest 10 percent, this latest analysis shows, lost 7 percent of their...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
The best way to spot a con artist is by paying attention to what you don't see, as well as to what you see. Donald Trump says he represents working people, but he has already moved aggressively to tilt the scales in favor of Wall Street’s criminal elite. As Trump...
by Dean Baker | Feb 3, 2017 | Blog
During his presidential campaign Donald Trump frequently talked about how he used campaign contributions as payoffs to advance his business interests. He boasted that if you give politicians money they have to do what you want. In an apparent effort to further advance...
