by Peter Certo | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. The latest news about Donald Trump, Jr., however, is tantalizingly close. The short version of the story, revealed by emails the New York Times...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
The nation's largest organization representing classroom teachers, the three million-member National Education Association, is getting plenty of guff over its decision to stonewall U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The NEA's latest rejection note to the...
by People's Action | Jul 13, 2017 | Breakfast
Closing Our Borders, Permanently? Trump crafting plan to slash legal immigration. Politico: "Donald Trump and his aides are quietly working with two conservative senators to dramatically scale back legal immigration — a move that would mark a fulfillment of one of the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
Wall Street, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and right-wing Republicans are ganging up again this week against consumers who want to hold financial institutions that rip them off accountable. The target this time is a rule issued this week by the Consumer Financial...
by Josh Crandell | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
Small businesses can’t compete without an open Internet. Today, hundreds of activists, big companies and small businesses are coming together for a Net Neutrality Day of Action. In 2010, the Obama Administration issued the Open Internet Order, which prohibited...
by LeeAnn Hall | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
Ask about health care at a summer cookout, and you’ll likely get an earful about how drug corporations are gouging us, leaving many families to choose between buying medications or putting food on the table. Why? Because corporations put profits before patients. Look...
by Tim Wilkins | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Recess Delayed for New GOP Health Bill Delaying August recess, Senate Republicans to release updated health care bill. NPR: "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., plans to release an updated Republican health care bill on Thursday and is delaying the body's...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog
The idea of Medicare for All, or single-payer health care, has grown in popularity so quickly that it was recently an answer on the quiz show Jeopardy: More than half of all Americans, 53 percent, now want a single-payer plan, up from 40 percent in 1998-2000. But at...
by Mark Trahant | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog
I am not sure of the exact year. It probably happened around 1996. That’s when the Indian Health Service became the single largest employer in Indian Country. This makes sense when you think about it: Indian health was once a small (unappreciated) division of the...
by People's Action | Jul 11, 2017 | Breakfast
Health Care Scramble Senate GOP leaders hope for health care vote next week. ABC: "Republican leaders are hoping to stage a climactic vote on their health care bill next week, though internal rifts over divisive issues like coverage requirements and Medicaid cuts...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog
Senate leader Mitch McConnell has warned Republicans that if he can’t find 50 Republican votes to repeal and replace Obamacare soon, he’ll open negotiations with Democrats to “fix” the thing. He intended this as a threat - a club to help round up the necessary support...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 10, 2017 | Blog
“None of us would say that we are on a course to success here in Afghanistan,” said Senator John McCain, speaking for a five-member bipartisan Senate delegation at a Kabul press briefing on July 4. The senators didn’t have to skip the July 4 parades to discover that....
by People's Action | Jul 10, 2017 | Breakfast
Health Impasse 2 GOP senators suggest bill to repeal health care law 'dead'. Associated Press: "'The initial GOP bill to repeal and replace the nation's health law is probably 'dead and President Donald Trump's proposal to just repeal it appears to be a "non-starter,'...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 8, 2017 | Blog
Sears is fading. Fast. The 124-year-old retailer — the place where all America once shopped — is tumbling into a shopping horror. At some Sears stores, recent news accounts report, ceilings are collapsing, rats are racing, and toilets aren’t working “for weeks on...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 7, 2017 | Blog
American workers have made a simple request of politicians for decades: stop the trade violations that kill American manufacturers and jobs. American factories and workers are willing to compete. They are able to compete. But the playing field must be level. American...
by People's Action | Jul 7, 2017 | Breakfast
Health Care Protests
by Richard Eskow | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog
“I mean, have you seen the other guys?” That's one of the slogans that was recently proposed by Democratic Party strategists, presumably in a lighthearted way. But the joke, if that’s what it was, reflects an underlying belief among party leaders that Democrats' best...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog
Democrats know that success for their party relies on bringing labor and civil rights advocates together on key issues. Faced with disastrous Donald Trump, labor and civil rights advocates are rallying in common cause behind health care for all, a living wage for...
by People's Action | Jul 6, 2017 | Breakfast
Taking Stock of Health Care GOP Promises lower health premiums but ignores all that’s driving them. Politico: "Republicans are betting it’s smart politics to zoom in on the pocketbook issues affecting individual consumers and families. But by ignoring the mounting...
by People's Action | Jul 5, 2017 | Breakfast
Independence Day Protests At parades and protests, GOP lawmakers get earful about health care. WaPo: "Republicans, who skipped the usual committee process in the hopes of passing a bill quickly, are spending the Fourth of July recess fending off protesters, low poll...
by Mark Trahant | Jul 5, 2017 | Blog
The Senate’s health care bill is “mostly dead.” But that’s not the same as all dead. And this holiday recess will decide either the legislation has a second life or if there is a better way to proceed. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog
We’ve arrived once again at that time of year — Independence Day — when the op-ed pages of America’s newspapers fill up with celebrations of democracy and the American Revolution’s enormous contribution to it. But this year’s hearty salutes to the Spirit of ’76 come...
by People's Action | Jul 3, 2017 | Breakfast
Health Care Maneuvers GOP's Plan B for Obamacare - repeal first, replace later - began with quiet push from Koch network. LA Times: "The influential Koch network, backed by the billionaire industrialists, floated the idea most recently at a retreat last weekend in...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 2, 2017 | Blog
When I'm not writing for OurFuture, I host a weekly news and opinion program on syndicated radio and cable TV called The Zero Hour. My team there recently faced a major challenge when we received a secret recording of Donald Trump’s remarks to a closed-door,...
by Sarah Chaisson-Warner | Jul 2, 2017 | Blog
Senators are home to celebrate Independence Day this week. Don’t let them go back to D.C. without hearing how important saving health care is to our country. We have one more chance to stop the GOP’s health care repeal before it sickens, bankrupts, and even kills many...
by Peter Frigeri | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
I own and manage two small businesses in Las Vegas. I love being a Nevada small business owner, but it’s not without its challenges. Small businesses drive the economy — creating jobs, local investment, tax dollars, and growth for the whole community. But before the...
by Judith LeBlanc | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
Judith LeBlanc, director of the Native Organizers Alliance, talks about "Water, Jobs & Justice" at the People's Summit in Chicago, Illinois on June 10, 2017. Other speakers include David Hunt, Food & Water Watch, Charles Goodman, NAACP Atlantic City, Dennis Houlihan,...
by Roger Hickey | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
Roger Hickey, co-founder of Campaign for America's Future, talks about "Campaigning & Governing for Transformational Change" at the People's Summit in Chicago on June 10, 2017. Other speakers include Mary Le Nguyen, WashingtonCAN!, Tori Kuper, Next Systems, U.S. Rep....
by LeeAnn Hall | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
LeeAnn Hall, co-director of People's Action, talks about "Multi-Front Organizing for the Political Revolution" at the People's Summit in Chicago, Illinois on June 10, 2017. Other speakers include Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor, activist and professor at Princeton...
by Amanda Weaver | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
Amanda Weaver, executive director of Reclaim Chicago, speaks about "Down Ballot Revolutionaries" at the People’s Summit in Chicago, Illinois on June 10, 2017. Other speakers include Khalid Kamau, City Councilor and Black Lives Matter leader from South Fulton, Georgia,...
by People's Action | Jun 30, 2017 | Breakfast
Health Care Tussle Senate health bill cuts Medicaid funding by 35 percent. NYT: "Projected Medicaid spending under a Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be 35 percent lower after two decades, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday...
by Daniel Doubet | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
Dan Doubet of Keystone Progress delivered these comments at the "Don't Take Our Health Care" rally in Pittsburgh, PA on June 24, 2017. Like many of you, my family is suffering. My 2 year old and 3 year old sons have been diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorder....
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog
A string of special election defeats has left Democrats bewildered at how they can continue to lose against a party led by the most unpopular president ever. Seasoned campaign analysts and political observers have criticized Democrats for not having a clear enough...
by George Goehl, LeeAnn Hall | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog
George Goehl and LeeAnn Hall, co-directors of People's Action, are featured in "The Constitution vs. Donald Trump," a new documentary film by Bob Abeshouse for Al-Jazeera America. The film explores the rising tide of grassroots resistance to the Trump administration's...
by People's Action | Jun 29, 2017 | Breakfast
GOP Scrambles for Health Votes Republicans scramble to revise health bill in 48 hours. Politico: "Senate GOP leaders are scrambling to put together a revised Obamacare repeal bill in the next 48 hours, even as some Republicans question whether they can bridge a huge...
by Lois Gibbs | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog
We in the wealthiest country in the world should feel ashamed. America takes our most vulnerable families - poor or working poor - and houses them next to polluting industries, poisons their children and now wants to take away their access to health care. This vicious...
by Chuck Collins | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog
If you find yourself traveling this summer, take a closer look at America’s deteriorating infrastructure — our crumbling roads, sidewalks, public parks, and train and bus stations. Government officials will tell us “there’s no money” to repair or properly maintain our...
by Bill Moyers | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog
This weekend, The New York Times printed every lie Donald Trump has told since taking office. The effort deserves the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. BY BILL MOYERS | JUNE 26, 2017 Screenshot of the New York Times op-ed piece entitled "Trump's Lies" that lists all...
by People's Action | Jun 28, 2017 | Breakfast
Health Vote Delayed Senate GOP leaders push off health care vote until after July 4th. NPR: "With their health care bill facing a perilous path, Senate Republican leaders have decided to push off a vote until after Congress returns from next week's July Fourth...
by Sarah Chaisson-Warner | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to delay the vote on his odious health care repeal until after the July 4 recess reflects the tremendous pressure people are placing on lawmakers to own up to the harm this bill will cause – and the need for us to...
