by Rev. Kenneth Glasgow | Dec 12, 2017 | Blog
There’s a lot at stake in Alabama right now; every vote counts. That’s why we’ve been going door to door to let folks know they have the right to vote, and get them out to the polls. In Alabama, more than a quarter of a million people have been disenfranchised because...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 12, 2017 | Blog
Two political scientists wrote a recent op-ed in the New York Times, which ran under the headline, "Is the Democratic Party Becoming Too Democratic?" It's an interesting thought. Unfortunately, the commentary appears to cherry-pick facts and figures to reinforce the...
by Lauren McCauley | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog
Despite freezing temperatures and the season’s first significant snowfall, hundreds of people from across New England turned out Saturday to demand that Senator Susan Collins finally listen to the will of the voters and reject the Republican tax overhaul. An estimated...
by People's Action | Dec 11, 2017 | Breakfast
GOP Barrels Towards Tax Cuts Precision sacrificed for speed as GOP rushes ahead on taxes. WaPo: "Republicans are moving their tax plan toward final passage at stunning speed, blowing past Democrats before they’ve had time to fully mobilize against it but leaving the...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog
The GOP's tax rewrite hits higher education hard, but new legislation House Republicans are crafting will likely go even farther to worsen the damage. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the House education committee recently gave a preview to its new legislation, a...
by Miles Mogulescu | Dec 9, 2017 | Blog
I just received an email from Joe Biden’s SuperPac urging me to resist the disastrous Republican tax bill by donating to Biden to help defeat the Republicans in 2020. It’s one of several solicitations I’ve received from Democratic candidates and Party-affiliated...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 9, 2017 | Blog
Ford hit Michigan and its auto workers with some crappy holiday news. Instead of building a $700 million electric vehicle factory in Michigan as promised in January, Ford will construct the plant in Mexico. Ford reneged on its promise to Michigan workers just days...
by People's Action | Dec 8, 2017 | Breakfast
Congress Averts Shutdown For Two Weeks Congress just averted a government shutdown, for now. Fortune: "The U.S. Congress moved rapidly on Thursday to send President Donald Trump a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown this weekend, leaving fights over...
by Emmanuel Cleaver | Dec 8, 2017 | Blog
I grew up extremely poor. We were so poor, our dog ran away to the dog pound; he turned himself in! I lived in this house with my momma, my daddy and my three sisters for seven years. There is no running water, there is no electricity; my grandmother lived in the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 7, 2017 | Blog
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, led by former brain surgeon and not-qualified-to-run-a-federal-agency Ben Carson, has found itself making an uncomfortable admission: Under Donald Trump, the nation's homelessness problem is getting worse. HUD put a...
by People's Action | Dec 7, 2017 | Breakfast
Government May Shut Down Friday DACA fix looms over talks to prevent government shutdown. NPR: "Congress, once again, finds itself days away from a potential government shutdown and a fight over immigration could stand in the way of a deal to prevent it. 'It could...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 7, 2017 | Blog
The U.S. Senate has now passed the most significant tax “reform” legislation since 1986. The legislation, most pundits believe, will likely become the new law of the land within weeks. What will that mean? We already have all sorts of numbers from reputable...
by Tim Wilkins | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog
[fve]https://youtu.be/JxcQb42a4XM[/fve] The nation's housing crisis has reached emergency levels. Instead of meeting the challenges of the crisis, elected officials are supporting a budget and tax scam that will only aggravate the situation for low-income and...
by People's Action | Dec 6, 2017 | Breakfast
Kochs Push Hard For Tax Cuts Conservative groups seeking support for tax cuts find it a hard sell. NYT: "A dozen high school students working for Americans for Prosperity, the conservative political network funded by Charles G. and David H. Koch, fanned out across the...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog
Republican Senator Charles Grassley tells the Des Moines Register his party's plan for deep tax cuts to the rich "recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or...
by People's Action | Dec 5, 2017 | Breakfast
SCOTUS Rules Trump Travel Ban Can Proceed Trump travel ban to take effect after Supreme Court ruling. NYT: "The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the third version of the Trump administration’s travel ban to go into effect while legal challenges against it continue. The...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog
“I’d like to think of myself as ordinary,” says Ross Grooters as he describes his life in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, an eastern suburb of Des Moines. But then he corrects himself. “Most people’s passions or enjoyment are not going out and doing activist things, so that’s...
by People's Action | Dec 4, 2017 | Breakfast
House, Senate To Reconcile Tax Cut Plans Republicans to reconcile House and Senate tax bills this week. WaPo: "Lawmakers are expecting an intense period of work starting Monday as lobbyists descend on the conference committee that will negotiate differences between...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog
Every day, the media feasts on Trump’s lurid antics. Don’t fall for it. He’s a distraction, the clown show. And while he’s barking outside the big top, the GOP is inside, cutting away at our economy and the very essentials of our public life. The tax bill Republicans...
by People's Action | Dec 1, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Tax Cuts Say no to the GOP tax scam! Call your senators today at 888-516-5820. and tell them to VOTE NO. The GOP plan gives huge tax breaks to corporations, the 1 percent, and the GOP's big-money donors. The rest of us will pay with big...
by Tiffaney Meredith | Dec 1, 2017 | Blog
My mom died without me by her side because my boss at Walmart wouldn’t let me leave work. In 2015, my mom had a stroke, so I upended my life in North Carolina, and moved to Texas with my son to take care of her. When I found a new job, I explained I was there to look...
by People's Action | Nov 30, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Tax Cuts Say no to the GOP tax scam! Call your senators today at 888-516-5820. and tell them to VOTE NO. The GOP plan gives huge tax breaks to corporations, the 1 percent, and the GOP's big-money donors. The rest of us will pay with big...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 30, 2017 | Blog
Small businesses and their customers will be badly hurt by Republicans’ bid to enact massive tax cuts for the wealthy, according to Sen. Ron Wyden and small business owners from across the country who joined him to denounce the plan. “What the Republicans produced was...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 29, 2017 | Blog
As the Republican-controlled Congress continues to advance tax plans that slash funding from public education, a new report reveals how state and local government officials, especially where GOP leadership dominates, have continued a decade-long campaign to keep...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 29, 2017 | Blog
An entire year of legislative defeats has grated on the GOP. Their promised Affordable Care Act repeal failed – again and again and again. Their Muslim ban was, well, banned by the courts. And now, in the waning days of November, their infrastructure bill, big...
by People's Action | Nov 29, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Tax Cuts Say no to the GOP tax scam! Call your senators today at 888-516-5820. and tell them to VOTE NO. The GOP plan gives huge tax breaks to corporations, the 1 percent, and the GOP's big-money donors. The rest of us will pay with big...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog
A Trump-appointed judge has issued his ruling. Mick Mulvaney – the Tea Party Congressman turned Trump apparatchik – will run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The political extremist who once said the CFPB was "extremely frightening," who called it "a joke......
by People's Action | Nov 28, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Tax Cuts Say no to the GOP tax scam! Call your senators today at 888-516-5820. and tell them to VOTE NO. The GOP plan gives huge tax breaks to corporations, the 1 percent, and the GOP's big-money donors. The rest of us will pay with big...
by Mark Trahant | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog
Congress has yet to reenact the Children’s Health Insurance Program and states will soon run out of funds to prop up the program. That will mean that thousands of American Indian and Alaska Native children will lose their health insurance. And, the result is the...
by People's Action | Nov 27, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Tax Cuts Say no to the GOP tax scam! Call your senators today at 888-516-5820. and tell them to VOTE NO. The GOP plan give huge tax breaks to corporations, the 1 percent, and the GOP's big-money donors. The rest of us will pay with big...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 26, 2017 | Blog
"Bullcrap!" That's the epithet Orrin Hatch threw at his fellow senator, Sherrod Brown, during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee. Brown's offense? He pointed out that Republicans aren't shooting straight when they say their tax cuts for the rich will help the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 26, 2017 | Blog
The Earth doesn’t quite shake when lawmakers in Washington, D.C. take one of their periodic votes on tax “reform.” But sometimes history does turn, and this coming week’s expected vote on the Senate version of the GOP tax plan could be one of those rare times that...
by People's Action | Nov 22, 2017 | Breakfast
Trump Rejects Immigration How Trump is building a border wall that no one can see. WaPo: "President Trump’s vision of a “big, beautiful” wall along the Mexican border may never be realized, and almost certainly not as a 2,000-mile physical structure spanning sea to...
by Judith LeBlanc | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog
I’m in Lower Brule, South Dakota, where elected tribal officials, spiritual leaders, Native grassroots organizations, youth groups, and traditional women’s societies have gathered with non-Native farmers, ranchers and others affected by the Keystone XL pipeline. That...
by People's Action | Nov 21, 2017 | Breakfast
FCC To Gut Net Neutrality FCC plans total repeal of net neutrality rules. Politico: "Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency's Obama-era net neutrality regulations,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 20, 2017 | Blog
The 12 months that ended this past summer, suggests the just-released annual Global Wealth Report from the Swiss bank Credit Suisse, ought to be cause for celebration. The world has never been richer. Credit Suisse’s researchers have discerned “a significant increase...
by Liz Ryan Murray | Nov 20, 2017 | Blog
During one of the worst housing crises in our history, Congress is proposing tax reform that would make it even worse – and in more ways than you may think. Some of the threats to affordable housing in the current House and Senate proposals are direct and potentially...
by People's Action | Nov 20, 2017 | Breakfast
How GOP Tax Cuts Would Reshape U.S. Economy GOP tax cuts would reshape the US economy. New York Magazine: ""Tax policy is about a lot more than generating revenue. Every tax code rewards certain kinds of economic activity and disincentives others. In the United...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 19, 2017 | Blog
Republicans in Congress must believe voters are dolts. Nothing else can explain the tax bill that just passed the House with 227 Republican votes and no Democrats. No rational person would make the choices that are in this bill. Even granting that big GOP donors want...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
A giant sucking sound, louder than a freight train, noisier than a tornado, shriller than Ross Perot yelling, “I told you so,” blasted across the nation Thursday as Republicans in the U.S. House passed their tax plan. It was the terrible sound of jobs swept out of...
