by Kathy Mulady | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog
Despite the drinking water crisis epitomized by the scandal in Flint, Michigan, Donald Trump has pledged to scrap regulations protecting our water resources. Meanwhile, the victims in Flint are reaching out to other communities, hoping to organize grassroots...
by Alan Pitts | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog
The author is a Purple Heart Recipient, Iraq War (WIA 10 October 2004) Since the start of the Republican primaries it seems like a week can’t go by without Donald Trump saying something that offends a different demographic of people in our country. But his deep...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog
In 2014 President Obama issued the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order, requiring corporations that want federal government contracts to disclose if they have violated rules about treating their workers fairly -- like rules against stealing their pay. The...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog
A federal appeals court issued a two-fold ruling against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday, overturning the CFPB’s action against a mortgage lender and ruling that the CFPB itself was set up improperly. According to the court's majority, the...
by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Richard Eskow | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog, Education, Student Debt Relief
Mary Green Swig Steven L. Swig Richard Eskow Once upon a time this country thought big. We survived the Great Depression, fought the Second World War, rebuilt Europe on the Marshall Plan … and provided tuition-free education for college students. Ask anybody from that...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog
On Sept. 2, a tarp covering part of the Liberty Bridge in Pittsburgh caught fire during repair work. The flames enveloped a steel beam that buckled and nearly caused the entire 88-year-old structure to collapse. A town already racked by hard-to-navigate streets...
