by Linda Armitage | Sep 18, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Housing
Photo credit: Caelie_Frampton/flickr/cc I lost everything during the financial crisis. The government decided that the perpetrators of the crisis were “too big to fail” and bailed them out with our money. I was not bailed out. Today, a decade after the crisis, I’m...
by Hugh Espey | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured
It’s time. After months of preparation, the Iowa People’s Presidential Forum will be this Saturday, September, 21, at noon in Des Moines. At Iowa CCI Action, we’re ready – our buses from all across the state are booked, and our questions are prepped. Bernie...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 12, 2019 | Economy, Featured, Future of Work, Health, Inequality
The weight of the wealth that sits at the top of America’s economic order isn’t just squeezing dollars out of the wallets of average Americans. That concentrated wealth is shearing years off of American lives. The latest evidence for that squeeze on American wallets...
by Miles Mogulescu | Sep 12, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured
At the first two Democratic debates, the moderators from NBC/MSNBC and CNN based their questions about health care on Republican and corporate talking points. They acted as if the issue most people care about is the future of private insurance companies, rather than...
by Paul M. Barrett | Sep 11, 2019 | Blog, Election, Featured
Photo credit: igorstevanovic/Shutterstock.com In 2016, Russian operatives used Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to sow division among American voters and boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. What the Russians used to accomplish this is called “disinformation,”...
by Jill Richardson | Sep 10, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Environment, Featured, Immigration
Photo credit: U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Stanton Donald Trump discusses immigration as if the benefits of residence in the U.S. are a pie. When immigrants get more, the people who were already here get less. In general, that’s not true. When...
