by Robert Reich | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
I finally found a Trump supporter – this morning when I went to buy coffee. (I noticed a Trump bumper sticker on his car.) “Hi,” I said. “Noticed your Trump bumper sticker.” “Yup,” he said, a bit defensively. “I hope you don’t mind my asking, but I’m curious. Why are...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
For all his bloviating about “law and order,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has yet to express any serious outrage over police killings of unarmed African-Americans. Will he now, after two more police-involved shootings of black men in the past week?...
by Bill Scher | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog
If you need any more evidence that knee-jerk obstructionism has ravaged the modern Republican Party, here's one more data point. Twenty-one of the the 27 states suing the EPA to prevent implementation of its Clean Power Plan, requiring cuts in carbon emissions, are...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
People who came looking for drama in Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf’s Senate testimony on Tuesday did not come away disappointed. Stumpf was called before the Senate Banking Committee after his bank was fined $185 million for opening more than two million accounts in...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog
Nine years after the Great Recession began during the tax- and regulation-slashing Bush administration, some startlingly good economic news arrived from Washington, D.C., last week. The incomes of typical Americans rose in 2015 by 5.2 percent, the first significant...
by Amber York | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog
The cost of child care is one of the biggest expenses facing many families in the United States. For some, the cost is more than their rent or mortgage payment. Low income families especially struggle to find affordable child care. Child care providers are among the...
