Mitch McConnell Blocks Immediate Vote On $2,000 Stimulus Checks
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a move by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to immediately vote on $2,000 stimulus checks....
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a move by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to immediately vote on $2,000 stimulus checks....
The comparisons between Charles Dickens’ miserly, Christmas-hating curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, and members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet flow fast and...
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising...
Budget / Inequality / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 19, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday took to the Senate floor to once again make the case for sending another round...
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul behind Fox News, received the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, even as hosts on his network...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday urged President-elect Joe Biden to use his executive authority to raise the minimum wage for...
New York state announced plans on Wednesday to eject oil and gas stocks from its $226 billion financial portfolio, becoming...
Lawmakers in Argentina on Friday approved a new one-time levy on the country’s richest citizens to raise money to address...
Just weeks away from relinquishing power to incoming President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration is quietly launching a last-minute assault...
A compelling majority of Americans favor raising taxes on people who make more than $400,000 per year, according to a...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for pushing a coronavirus relief measure that contains a...
Six days after President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture notified food safety groups...
GOP Sen. David Perdue has truly made a name for himself as the Senate’s ultimate pandemic profiteer. In yet another display...
Pinpointing a reality denounced as “morally obscene” by Sen. Bernie Sanders, a new government study shows how some of the...
The American people have voted to kick President Donald Trump out of the White House, but in its waning weeks,...
As President Donald Trump tries to delegitimize the results of a presidential contest in which he “got his ass kicked” by making unsubstantiated claims of...
ust days after U.S. voters went to the polls to help deny President Donald Trump another four years in the White House,...
Westminster Management, a residential management company owned by White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, has quickly moved in to file for...
One of the greatest side benefits of climate action is that it creates a lot of jobs. Not only that...
After decades of public denial, ExxonMobil now acknowledges that “the risk of climate change is real” and says it is “committed to...
When the late New York City real estate magnate Leona Helmsley infamously said “only the little people pay taxes,” she spoke the...
Billionaire wealth increased to $10.2 trillion through the end of July, setting a new record amid the coronavirus pandemic even...
James Murdoch, the former CEO of 21st Century Fox and the youngest son of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch, has admitted that he...
The authors of two separate poverty studies out of three top universities said Thursday that their findings make the unmistakable...
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court are one part comedy,...
New reporting Monday based on leaked internal documents reveals ExxonMobil has been planning to notably increase annual carbon dioxide emissions—a revelation that...
I just watched most of the US vice presidential debate. There were several gigantic lies that Vice President Mike Pence...
The fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, lies with the Supreme Court: The nation’s highest court will...
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) never wastes an opportunity to roast a CEO. On Wednesday, three pharmaceutical executives, including former Celgene...
Corruption / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published September 30, 2020
In 2011, The New York Times published what was, at the time, the most shocking expose on tax policy in...
Corruption / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published September 28, 2020
The $750 in federal income taxes that Donald Trump paid in 2016 and 2017 is an attention-grabbing number—in large part...
Instead of adhering to congressional intent by building up the nation’s inadequate supply of N95 masks and other equipment to combat the...
Top Republicans on Thursday vowed to ensure a peaceful transfer of power should President Donald Trump lose the November election,...
Southerly has reported that public records show a Louisiana lawmaker is getting paid to push a proposed 280-mile Delta Express pipeline through Black...
Millions of children across the United States are already going hungry amid the economic recession spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Analysis released Thursday of the world’s top 10 biggest plastic polluters in 15 countries reveals how major corporations hide behind...
Joining the trend of city, county, and state governments trying to make polluters pay for their significant contributions to the...
After Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to pass the so-called “skinny” coronavirus relief plan—prioritizing corporations over the health,...
President Trump is a threat not just to America, but to the planet. I’m not talking about his radicalization of...
LAKESIDE, Calif. — This is America: a family crammed in a minivan driving mile after mile across San Diego County,...
President Donald Trump has long promised to release a health care plan that could replace Obamacare, but with just two months to...
With jobless Americans growing increasingly desperate and furious at congressional Republicans for skipping town for summer recess without approving Covid-19 relief, House Speaker Nancy...
A lobby group representing oil and chemical companies, including Shell, Exxon, Total, DuPont and Dow, has been pushing the Trump...
Days after the payroll processor for the federal government—one of the nation’s largest employers—announced it would implement President Donald Trump’s plan...
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 stock index hit a record high. The next day, Apple became the first U.S. company...
Kenny Overstreet scrounges every penny—and even sells the eggs his chickens lay—to make ends meet after Packaging Corporation of America...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.