by Terrance Heath | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Republicans now face an impossible task: denouncing racism while supporting a racist. They have no one but themselves to blame. On Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned Donald Trump’s remarks about a federal judge as “textbook” racism, just days after dismissing...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
After having stated she is against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and opposes a lame-duck vote on that agreement after the election, President Obama on Thursday endorsed his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, in her bid for the presidency. Then the...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 9, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
This week more than 450 organizations joined to ask Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) because of provisions that would allow corporations to sue governments over laws and regulations that might restrict their profits. The groups are concerned that...
by Burning Issues Video | Jun 9, 2016 | Burning Issues, Tax Reform
[fve]https://youtu.be/Ir6q1swyqaw[/fve] Corporations that have stashed more than $2 trillion in profits offshore to avoid taxes have been angling for legislation that will enable them to pay only a sliver of the taxes they owe on that money, says Frank Clemente,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 9, 2016 | Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/Y93WutGCyf4[/fve]Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Good Jobs Nation, discusses the effort to get a $15 minimum wage plank written into the Democratic Party platform. As members of the Democratic Party platform committee entered the...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Hillary Clinton became the “presumptive nominee” of the Democratic Party Tuesday night, and will be the first woman ever to win the presidential nomination of a major party. Clinton won primaries in New Jersey, New Mexico and California, the large states at issue. She...
