by Julie Chinitz | May 9, 2017 | Blog
All across the country, citizens at town hall meetings are asking hard questions to the 217 Republicans like New York's John Faso and Elise Stefanik who voted in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid. People's Action's Julie Chinitz offers advice...
by Gil Manzon, Jr., Tim Gray | May 8, 2017 | Blog
The Trump administration wants to change the way the government taxes so-called pass-through entities. In a nutshell, the Trump proposal would dramatically lower the rates this category of filers pay. This would lead to very creative tax planning at best and outright...
by Miles Mogulescu | May 8, 2017 | Blog
While France has a different system from the U.S. for choosing its President, their run-off election bore an uncanny similarity to America’s 2016 contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. French voters were offered a binary choice between Le Pen, a neofascist...
by People's Action | May 8, 2017 | Breakfast
Healthcare Fallout Obamacare repeal vote upends 2018 House landscape. Politico: “More than a dozen senior Republican strategists, lawmakers, and potential candidates expressed varying degrees of concern over the political implications of the health care push… The...
by Chuck Jones | May 5, 2017 | Blog
On day one, Trump could have saved thousands of U.S. jobs. He didn't. The New York Times recently ran a front-page story about 700 United Technologies Corp. workers who are seeing their jobs shipped off to Mexico. Along with their UTC Carrier...
by Robert Borosage | May 5, 2017 | Blog
The Congressional Progressive Caucus released “The People’s Budget” this week, which it dubs a “roadmap for the resistance.” Maybe the mere mention of a federal budget plan makes your eyes glaze over, but the “People’s Budget” is a dramatic document. Representative...
by Richard Eskow | May 5, 2017 | Blog
Ten. That’s how many people will die every year so Republicans can give a tax break to each of the 400 richest people in America, under the new “health” bill just passed by the House of Representatives. All in all, hundreds of thousands could die over the next ten...
by Tim Wilkins | May 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
GOP Ignores Consequences of ACA Repeal Republicans manufacture a crisis that will devastate millions of families. Common Dreams: "...with no Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score on how many people would be affected, and with scant time for lawmakers to even read...
by LeeAnn Hall | May 5, 2017 | Health
Republicans in the House of Representatives on Thursday voted to repeal the health care of 24 million people. The only people celebrating are the politicians who have put party above constituents, and advanced a giant tax giveaway for corporations and the super-rich....
by Sam Pizzigati | May 4, 2017 | Blog
Bitter partisanship. Hopeless gridlock. A tax code littered with loopholes that only special interests could love. Washington’s latest attempt to overhaul the federal tax code, the first under Donald Trump, is getting underway with all these familiar realities in...
by Jeff Bryant | May 4, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump's adamant promotion of "school choice," and his selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, put Democratic advocates for charter schools in a bind. Some Dems are now scrambling to keep the well-polished luster of the charter school brand...
by People's Action | May 4, 2017 | Breakfast
House Rushes to Vote on Health Care GOP leaders confident they have votes but acknowledge the tally will be very close. Politico: “Republican leaders have called a vote on a plan to replace the health care law, signaling surging confidence that they’re on the cusp of...
by Richard Eskow | May 3, 2017 | Blog
A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that, in the words of NBC’s Carrie Dann, “a record number of Americans say that the government should do more — not less — in order to solve the nation's problems.” This is a major change from the 1990s, when most...
by Bryce Oates | May 3, 2017 | Blog
Why would a bunch of protesters show up at the Heritage Foundation to call them out for supporting policies that slash and privatize critical government programs that serve low-income and working-class communities? That seems to be the puzzle perplexing Heritage's...
by Jody Stewart | May 3, 2017 | Blog
The Jersey Shore, still reeling from Hurricane Sandy, is on the front lines as Republicans seek to toss people off Medicaid, jack up costs for people who are older and poorer, and rip up protections for people with preexisting conditions. Fortunately, Jody Stewart and...
by People's Action | May 3, 2017 | Breakfast
How Much Is That House Vote in the Window? Roosevelt Institute report examines how much money it takes to buy a vote in Congress. Common Dreams: "The results indicate that for every $100,000 that Democratic representatives received from finance, the odds they would...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2017 | Economy, Jobs and Growth, People's Budget
To people who argue that the resistance to President Trump amounts to protest without a plan, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has delivered a detailed and robust rebuke. Its fiscal 2018 budget proposal, subtitled "A Roadmap for the Resistance," is virtually a...
by Richard Eskow | May 2, 2017 | Blog
America Rising, a billionaire-backed conservative group, is targeting Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts as she tours the country in support of her new book, according to a memo obtained by Politico. "We view (the) book launch as the soft launch of her...
by Leo Gerard | May 2, 2017 | Blog
As he ran for office, Donald Trump repeatedly reminded audiences that he was “really, really rich,” but assured voters that as president he would be a working man’s champion, a blue-collar Superman. He said he would stop corporations from offshoring manufacturing jobs...
by People's Action | May 2, 2017 | Breakfast
Will He, or Won't He? Trump says he want so to loosen regulations on community bankers. USA Today: "President Trump told a group of community bankers Monday that he is trying to cut the number of government regulations they have long protested, even as he floated the...
by Jeff Bryant | May 1, 2017 | Blog
Nearly every cause at the center of the progressive movement has its roots, at least in part, at the schoolhouse door. That's at least part of the message behind the "Build Schools, Not Walls" campaign that kicked off this week in unison with the massive May 1st...
by Harvey J Kaye | May 1, 2017 | Blog
The Resistance needs to develop a memory of how past generations confronted reactionary threats to American democracy. Franklin Roosevelt’s first “Hundred Days” of 1933, in which the newly-elected president and a Democratic-controlled Congress confronted the...
by Mark Trahant | May 1, 2017 | Blog
Congress has a spending plan. And it rejects most (but not all) of President Donald J. Trump’s priorities. It also includes more money for most federal Indian programs. But remember: This is a short budget. It’s only enough money to fund government operations through...
by People's Action | May 1, 2017 | Breakfast
Government Stays Open, For Now Congress Seeks to Avoid Shutdown. The Hill:"...Bipartisan negotiators agreed Sunday night on a bill to keep the government running through September, and will move it through the House and Senate this week before government funding runs...
by Libero Della Piana | May 1, 2017 | Blog
Colorful banners, puppets and hand-painted signs filled the streets of Washington, D.C. as an upbeat crowd of more than 200,000 made their way from from the Capitol Building up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, sending a strong message that climate change is a...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 28, 2017 | Blog
Republicans are proposing a huge, huge cut in corporate tax rates. They are also proposing to let giant, multinational corporations keep much of the money they already owe on profits they have stashed in "offshore" tax havens. Lower tax rates mean higher after-tax...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 28, 2017 | Blog
A new poll shows fully two-thirds of the American public agrees with this statement: “The Democratic Party is out of touch with the concerns of most people.” And scarcely more than one in four Democrats themselves think the party understands most people’s everyday...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 28, 2017 | Blog
If you're worried about the negative impact U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will have on K-12 public schools, you should also pay attention to what she's doing to higher education. Fortunately, people who have the most at stake – students who aspire...
by People's Action | Apr 28, 2017 | Breakfast
ACA Repeal Still Short Republicans delay health care vote again. The Hill: "White House officials had been pushing for a vote by President Trump's 100th day in office on Saturday, but it was clear Thursday night that the 216 GOP votes needed to pass the healthcare...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 27, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump’s 100th day as president is upon us, and the early reviews aren’t good. Although he now calls it a “ridiculous standard,” Trump once touted his 100-day plan on the campaign trail. This flip-flop can be explained by his unimpressive record of...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 27, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump’s totemic first 100 days in office have been greeted with brutal reviews. Ironically, the most positive comments involve the neck-snapping series of flip-flops Trump has sprung on signature populist issues. The chattering classes have greeted these with...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 27, 2017 | Blog
Every 12 days, a member of my union, the United Steelworkers (USW), or one of their non-union co-workers, is killed on the job. Every 12 days. And it’s been that way for years. These are horrible deaths. Workers are crushed by massive machinery. They drown in vats of...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 27, 2017 | Blog
Wall Street's business model is fraud. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was created to fight fraud. So naturally, Wall Street and Republicans in Congress are trying to kill the CFPB as fast as they can. The CFPB came into existence after the public...
by People's Action | Apr 27, 2017 | Breakfast
Tax Plan May Not Help Middle Class No guarantees for middle-class help in Trump tax plan. ABC News: "Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin [said] he couldn’t say how Donald Trump's sweeping tax overhaul plan would affect the president personally, while also declining to...
by Tim Wilkins | Apr 27, 2017 | Blog
They came from communities across the country to Washington, D.C. to share stories, find inspirations, and plan for the future - together. These are the more than twelve hundred who gathered for “Rise Up!” - the founding convention of People’s Action and the People's...
by People's Action | Apr 26, 2017 | Blog
The following platform was introduced at the Rise Up: From Protest to Power founding convention of People's Action held in Washington DC, April 23-25, 2017. At the event, seventy-two grassroots activists pledged to run for office guided by the principles in the...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 26, 2017 | Blog
After eight years of complaining about "Obama deficits," Republicans are proposing huge, dramatic, unprecedented tax cuts, especially for corporations. President Trump wants the corporate tax rate cut from 35 percent down to 15, denying the government $2 trillion of...
by People's Action | Apr 26, 2017 | Breakfast
Progressives Go On Health Care Offense Rep. Keith Ellison talks health care strategy at People's Action convention. Roll Call: "...Ellison said it was important to reach out to people who might disagree with them ... Ellison said it was also important to push beyond...
by LeeAnn Hall | Apr 26, 2017 | Health
Back in January, a victory on health care seemed a long way away. Today, we’re still in a big fight to protect the health care that we need and that everyone deserves. It’s not just the Affordable Care Act that they’re going after. The right wing is going after...
by Tim Wilkins | Apr 25, 2017 | Blog
Watch the People's Action Hometown Rising Town Hall, as Rep. Keith Ellison and other champions tell our stories and share our strategy for taking on new dangers to our health care from GOP budget and tax proposals. People's Action, our affiliates and allies helped...
