by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog
The Washington Post has reported that Trump “has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter, and ordering...
by People's Action | Jan 15, 2019 | Breakfast
IA Rep. Steve King Punished For Racism IA Rep. Steve King Punished For Racism. NYT: "House Republican leaders removed Representative Steve King of Iowa from the Judiciary and Agriculture Committees on Monday night as party officials scrambled to appear tough on racism...
by Negin Owliaei | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog
Photo credit: VOCAL-NY November’s Blue Wave didn’t only take place on a federal level. Democrats flipped hundreds of state legislature seats, including in New York, where they took control of the Senate for the first time in a decade. Now, the activists across the...
by People's Action | Jan 14, 2019 | Breakfast
Government Shutdown Enters Fourth Week Shutdown damage ripples across country. NYT: "the sharpest effects of the longest shutdown in the nation’s 242-year history are only beginning to emerge across the country. In many parts of the United States, the shutdown has...
by Tara Raghuveer | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog
Our nation is in a full-blown housing emergency. Today, a person working full time in a minimum-wage job cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment - anywhere in the United States. More than half of all Americans spend a third or more of their income on housing. Only one...
by People's Action | Jan 11, 2019 | Breakfast
Federal Workers Protest Government Shutdown Angry furloughed federal workers protest shutdown at the White House, around the country. NBC: "'I have rent to pay,' a demonstrator said. 'I have bills I need to pay. I want to go to work.' Hundreds of furloughed government...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 11, 2019 | Blog
Corporatists have sought to shame two clear-eyed lawmakers in recent weeks for daring to offer prescriptions to cure America's rampant economic anxiety. “Stupid” is what they tried to call new Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she became the youngest...
by People's Action | Jan 10, 2019 | Breakfast
Trump Forces Federal Employees To Work Without Pay Pelosi On Trump: Maybe he thinks workers can just 'Ask their father for more money.' Crooks and Liars: "Donald Trump just walked out on a 'negotiation' with Democratic leaders in what appears to be a staged stunt to...
by People's Action | Jan 9, 2019 | Breakfast
Trump Bid For Border 'Crisis' Falls Flat A seemingly invincible communicator finds his kryptonite in prime time. Politico: "For President Trump, a prime-time presidential address to the nation was a radical experiment in conventionality. The first results back from...
by People's Action | Jan 8, 2019 | Breakfast
Freedom For Cyntoia Brown Brown is granted clemency after serving 15 years in prison. CNN: "Cyntoia Denise Brown, a woman serving a life sentence for killing a man who bought her for sex when she was 16 years old, has been granted clemency, the Tennessee governor's...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 8, 2019 | Blog
Andrew Leigh, a member of the Australian parliament, has a side gig. He just happens to be a working economist. Other lawmakers may spend their spare hours making cold calls for campaign cash. Leigh spends his doing research — on why our modern economies are leaving...
by People's Action | Jan 7, 2019 | Breakfast
Shutdown May Force Evictions, End To Food Aid As shutdown drags on, Trump officials make new offer, seek novel ways to cope with its impacts. WaPo: "Trump administration officials began taking extraordinary steps to contain the fallout from the partial federal...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 7, 2019 | Blog
Three weeks have passed since Donald Trump shut down much of the government because Congress won’t give him $5.6 billion in taxpayer money to build 200 miles of his illusory Wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Let’s be clear on one thing: There is no Wall. There...
by People's Action | Dec 21, 2018 | Breakfast
House, Senate At Odds Over Border Wall House passes stopgap funding bill with $5 billion for Trump's border wall, at odds with Senate. NBC: "The House passed a stopgap measure Thursday night to fund the government that includes $5 billion for a border wall sought by...
by Sara LaWall | Dec 21, 2018 | Blog
Two thousand years ago, a young mother and father fled for their lives and left everything behind for the safety of their child. Their names were Mary and Joseph. I can’t help but think what would happen to this migrant family and their brown-skinned baby at our...
by People's Action | Dec 20, 2018 | Breakfast
Last-Minute Deal Averts Shutdown Senate passes stopgap spending bill that would avert shutdown. NYT: "Moving to head off a looming government shutdown, the Senate passed a stopgap spending bill on Wednesday night that would keep the government funded through Feb. 8 —...
by Elder Leslie | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog
The facts of the case are simply horrifying: Cyntoia Brown was a child of 16 in Nashville, Tennessee when she was sex-trafficked by a pimp named “Kut-throat.” Just days after being repeatedly drugged and raped by different men, a 43-year-old real estate agent...
by People's Action | Dec 19, 2018 | Breakfast
Senate May Deny Wall, Avert Shutdown Senate to pass bill that would keep government open, deny Trump wall funding. WaPo: "The Senate intends to pass a short-term spending bill that would keep the government open through Feb. 8 but deny President Trump the money he...
by Linda Armitage | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog
Our nation is in a housing crisis that’s getting worse. We need action from our lawmakers now. That’s the message I traveled to Washington with People’s Action housing activists from all across the country to deliver. My name is Linda Armitage, and I’m 76 years old. I...
by People's Action | Dec 18, 2018 | Breakfast
Russian Disinformation Targets Mueller Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III, says report prepared for Senate. WaPo: "Months after President Trump took office, Russia’s disinformation teams trained their sights on a new target: special counsel...
by Ben Ishibashi | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog
Excitement is building among environmentalists as Washington prepares for the arrival of new lawmakers elected by the #PeoplesWave. Led by New York Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, these insurgents promise to infuse new energy into the movement for climate...
by People's Action | Dec 17, 2018 | Breakfast
White House Barrels Towards Shutdown White House prepares for shutdown as both sides dig in over Trump’s wall. WaPo: "The White House and a number of federal agencies have started advanced preparations for a partial government shutdown, as President Trump and...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 17, 2018 | Blog
We either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or all of us are going to fry. So essentially posits still another new blockbuster study on climate change, this one just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Our fossil-fuel industrial economy,...
by People's Action | Dec 14, 2018 | Breakfast
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies From Neglect In ICE Custody 7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion. WaPo: "A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last...
by Frank Clemente | Dec 14, 2018 | Blog
We should have told them to be more specific. When President Trump and his fellow Republicans in Congress called their massive tax overhaul last year the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” most of us assumed the jobs would be in the United States. Now we know better. Yes,...
by People's Action | Dec 13, 2018 | Breakfast
House Passes $867b Farm Bill House passes $867 billion farm bill, sending it to Trump. The Hill: "The House on Wednesday passed an $867 billion farm bill to help those in the agricultural industry, sending the legislation to President Trump for a signature. The...
by People's Action | Dec 12, 2018 | Breakfast
EPA To Gut Water Protections Trump EPA proposes major rollback of Federal water protections. NPR: "Vast amounts of wetlands and thousands of miles of U.S. waterways would no longer be federally protected by the Clean Water Act under a new proposal by the Trump...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 12, 2018 | Blog
Back in the closing years of the 20th century, the British Labour Party leader Tony Blair thoroughly redefined his party’s essence. Labour, Blair believed, had to shake off the past and become a political force “on the side” of the upwardly mobile, not just workers...
by People's Action | Dec 11, 2018 | Breakfast
Faith Leaders Confront Soldiers At Border th leaders to U.S. authorities: Migrants have international right to U.S. asylum. NBC: "Over 200 religious leaders and advocates gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border on Human Rights Day to send a message to the Trump...
by George Goehl | Dec 11, 2018 | Blog
In November’s midterm elections, no issue played a larger role in fueling the People’s Wave that elected a record number of progressives to Congress than health care. It was the Trump administration’s push last year to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that helped...
by People's Action | Dec 10, 2018 | Breakfast
'Public Charge' Change Will Increase Poverty Proposed public charge rules could increase poverty by 5% in New York City. NY Daily News:"Up to 115,000 New Yorkers could be pushed into poverty if the federal government approves proposed changes to the public charge...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog
It’s that time of the year – the most wonderful time of the year, they say, the hap-happiest season of all. There'll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting and utility repair workers out in the snow. It’s great, all right. You know what would make it...
by People's Action | Dec 7, 2018 | Breakfast
Trump's Undocumented Workers Making President Trump’s bed: A housekeeper without papers. NYT: "During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and...
by Erica Johnson | Dec 7, 2018 | Blog
Iowa needs immigrants. So does our country - that’s the plain and simple truth. But it’s one that too many of our lawmakers simply ignore. Why? Because the Hawkeye State, like the rest of our country, needs workers – and immigrants are some of our hardest-working...
by People's Action | Dec 6, 2018 | Breakfast
Tax Cuts Create Layoffs, Not Jobs These companies claimed the GOP tax bill would ‘boost jobs.’ Now they’re laying off employees. ThinkProgress: "In the lead-up to the enactment of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, Donald Trump’s massive tax cut that mostly benefited rich...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 6, 2018 | Blog
On Monday morning, November 26, the auto giant General Motors announced plans to shut down production at five plants in the United States and Canada and shear off 15 percent of the company’s salaried jobs. The moves will cost 14,700 GM workers their livelihood. The...
by People's Action | Dec 5, 2018 | Breakfast
WI GOP Votes To Curb Democracy Wisconsin lawmakers reject bill to protect pre-existing conditions, set to scale back Democrats' power. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: "Just before the sun rose Wednesday, Republicans in the state Senate by a one-vote margin approved...
by Djuan Wash | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog
Someone forgot to tell Republicans that Holidays are about giving to others, not to themselves. We saw this last year, when they queued up to give themselves a giant tax cut for Christmas. This year, the Grinch wants to steal democracy, too. Right now, the GOP is...
by People's Action | Dec 4, 2018 | Breakfast
Dems Move Women Into Leadership Roles Democratic women are replacing men in leadership positions. Axios: "Democrats are moving women into leadership roles in key party organizations, including the campaign arms for national and state races — and even in the moderate...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 4, 2018 | Blog
Even before the votes from the recent midterm elections were completely counted – a process that took nearly two weeks in many races – numerous prominent news outlets were quick to report on the supposed failure of the "education wave," those school teachers and...
