by Dave Johnson | Jul 18, 2013 | Student Debt Relief, This Is The GOP
Congress should do the right thing the right thing for our people, our country and our economy and provide a free college education to everyone who qualifies. Instead student loan rates doubled July 1 because our obstructed Congress couldn't and wouldn't act in time....
by Robert Borosage | Jul 12, 2013 | This Is The GOP
Conservative Republicans have turned the farm bill – normally a bipartisan grotesquerie of agribusiness subsidies and excess – from legislation to identity politics. They wanted to make a statement, even though they knew it couldn't survive the Senate or the White...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 10, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
You know how big-company lobbyists get some states to pass laws that block cities and counties from doing something about problems like tobacco or guns? Well there is a "trade" treaty called the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the works that sets down international rules...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 5, 2013 | Financial Reform, Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
After 237 years, we’re becoming a colony again. Our nation's losing the right to self-determination it fought so hard to win, and it’s happening on a scale unseen since the days of George III. As is so often the case these days, this wholesale loss of our rights is...
by Dave Johnson | May 23, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is using a process that is rigged from the start. It is not being negotiated by governments for the benefit of their people, it is being negotiated by executives (or future executives/lobbyists currently in...
by Dave Johnson | May 14, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
You will be hearing a lot about the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. TPP's negotiations are being held in secret with details kept secret even from our Congress. But giant corporations are in the loop. TPP is a "trade" agreement between several...
