by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Tax Reform
A new report released Wednesday that Walmart is dodging taxes by stashing $76 billion of profits outside of the country using 78 subsidiaries in 15 tax havens raises a question: Why is Congress and the White House considering policies that reward tax dodgers like...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Wall Street and the big corporations don't like to lose. It looks like The Money has told the Republicans to try again to get fast track through and they are preparing to vote before we can rally and organize people to try to stop it again. News reports say the House...
by Bill Scher | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Climate
Twenty years ago Pope John Paul II delivered an encyclical, an authoritative letter to all Catholic bishops, that urged them to champion a "culture of life," by opposing abortion, contraception, euthanasia, war and capital punishment. Republican politicians quickly...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 17, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
After threatening to run for years, real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his candidacy for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. For real, this time. For years, Donald Trump has been one of the most famous non-candidates for...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 17, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The severe damage that President Obama's obstinate pursuit of fast-track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership did to his relationships with the labor movement and his progressive base, and his loss of face with the business community when an overwhelming...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 16, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Federal Reserves Open Market Committee started a two-day series of meeting today, and on Wednesday Fed Chair Janet Yellen is expected to announce the latest verdict on if, and perhaps when, interest rates will begin to rise. The conventional wisdom is that as the...
