by Derek Pugh | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
The House GOP believes in welfare – just not the kind that goes to help the poor, sick, students, elderly or working class. Thursday’s vote to cut food stamps embodies what House conservatives are all about: giving billions away in corporate welfare to the richest...
by Bill Scher | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
Environmentalists are cheering the new EPA draft rules that cap carbon emissions from new power plants, and effectively prevent future construction of traditional coal-power. And they should. The coal industry is whining that the White House has launched a "war on...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
With one in seven Americans experiencing "food insecurity," Republicans yesterday passed a terrible and cruel cut in Food Stamps. This shows us just who they are. One In Seven New America Foundation: More Than One in Seven U.S. Households Experienced Food Insecurity...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
This week the Obama administration's Department of Labor issued new rules extending minimum wage and overtime protection (beginning in 2015) to home care workers. These workers had been classified as the same as babysitters. This is a big change for almost 2 million...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
An outside observer might be forgiven for thinking JPMorgan Chase isn’t so much a bank as it is a criminal enterprise with a bank attached to it. Even before the London Whale scandal, Chase's documented list of crimes included repeated fraud, perjury, forgery,...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 20, 2013 | Blog
Republicans are playing a trick on people with the negotiations over the budget and threats to shut down the government. On the one hand, they are threatening to shut down the government over "Obamacare." On the other hand, aside from Obamacare defunding, they are...
