How Big Pharma twists the law to its will and leaves Americans worse off
Big Pharma spends a small fortune every year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re...
Author: onepercenttakers
Inequality in the Trump economy just keeps getting worse
Every month when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its monthly jobs report, Donald Trump and Republicans crow about the...
How Trump quietly handed billions more in tax breaks to huge corporations
A “disturbing” New York Times story published Monday detailed how President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department, led by former Goldman Sachs banker Steve...
Robert Reich: The biggest business con of 2019 — fleecing workers while bosses get rich
Corporate social responsibility is the second-biggest con of 2019 (Donald Trump remains in first place). Consider Boeing, whose board just...
Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Winter Vacation Pushes Taxpayer Golf Tab Above $118 million
President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit...
Amazon, Chevron, and Starbucks Among 91 Fortune 500 Corporations That Paid $0 in Federal Income Taxes
More than 90 large, profitable corporations on the Fortune 500 list effectively did not pay a penny in federal income...
Robert Reich: How Trump has betrayed the working class
Trump’s corporate giveaways and failure to improve the lives of ordinary working Americans are becoming clearer by the day. Trump...
New data shows income of top 1 percent has grown 100 times faster than bottom 50 percent since 1970
New data released Monday explains the numbers behind Sen. Bernie Sanders’ often-cited statistic that the three richest Americans hold more...
Elizabeth Warren Slams Moderate Rivals, Defends Progressive Vision
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Elizabeth Warren lashed out Thursday at her moderate Democratic rivals seeking the White House, accusing them...
Trump Takes Food Away From 755,000 Americans Before Christmas
The Trump administration has finalized a rule change to the SNAP program that will take away food from 755,000 Americans...
Poll Finds That Even Most Republicans Back Warren’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax
New polling results released Friday find broad support for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax, with Americans across most demographic...
Trump Busted For Bank And Tax Fraud In Newly Obtained Documents
Property documents reveal that Donald Trump has been listing higher values on his loan applications and lower values on his...
Robert Reich: Republicans and even some Democrats are out to scare you about Medicare for All
The typical American family now spends $6,000 on health insurance premiums each year. Add in the co-payments and deductibles that...
Warren Suggests Corporate Media Ask Working People, Not Just the Very Rich, About Her Wealth Tax
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday evening called out the news media for focusing their coverage of her proposed Ultra-Millionaires Tax largely...
Bernie Sanders says Bloomberg’s moves toward 2020 bid shows ‘billionaire class is scared’
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday night that America’s billionaire class is “scared,” and rightly so, after numerous outlets reported that...
Robert Reich: Billionaires fear Warren and Sanders – but they should fear us all
Billionaires are wailing that wealth tax proposals by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are attacks on free-market capitalism. Warren “vilifies...
Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million for Charity Fraud
A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to personally pay $2 million to settle the state attorney general’s...
How Warren’s plan to take profit out of health care would lift millions of families out of poverty
Poverty makes people sick. Families in poverty are more likely than wealthy families to get sick, stay sick, and delay...
‘Tax Dodger-in-Chief’ Trump Changes Permanent Residency From New York to Florida
In the midst of a heated court battle with Manhattan over his tax returns, President Donald Trump announced Thursday night...
Elizabeth Warren Proves That Most Americans Will Get a Big Tax Break Under Medicare for All
It won’t be a burden. It will be a relief. And for the large majority of those living in the...
Democrats Take Aim at ‘Trust Fund Babies’ With Estate Tax Designed to Combat Wealth Inequality
California Congressman Jimmy Gomez on Friday introduced legislation in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House that aims to address “our country’s rapidly...
Government To Borrow One Trillion Dollars To Pay For Tax Cuts For Billionaires
The Treasury Department is being forced to borrow a staggering $1 trillion for the coming fiscal year, after the Republican...
ExxonMobil is still bankrolling climate science deniers
ExxonMobil says it believes “the risk of climate change is real,” and it is “committed to being part of the...
Trump Responds To Impeachment By Trying To Take Away Free School Meals From A Million Kids
The Trump administration is trying to change eligibility requirements so that 1 million kids would lose access to free school...
Swamp Gets Larger: Report Details 281 Lobbyists in Trump Administration Over First Two Years
A new report from ProPublica and Columbia Journalism Investigations, published Tuesday, found that President Donald Trump’s campaign vow to “drain the swamp”...
Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Holding Secret Meetings With Conservatives
According to a new report by Politico, and confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg himself, the Facebook CEO has been secretly meeting...
America’s richest 400 families now pay a lower tax rate than the middle class
The U.S. tax system is supposed to be progressive, meaning that wealthier households pay a larger share of their income...
Trump’s Business Holdings in Turkey Sets His Foreign Policy For The Region
Trump Towers in Istanbul is a major part of Trump’s business portfolio. “The Turks are also the top patrons of...
The Trump Administration Wants Restaurant Servers To Do More Work For Less Pay
The Trump administration is trying once again to tweak the rules that govern how tipped workers are paid. This time,...
Healthcare Ad Spending Exceeds $65 Million in 2019 as Insurance Industry Ramps Up Effort to Kill Medicare for All
An Axios analysis released Wednesday found that spending on healthcare advertisements has exceeded $65 million in 2019 as dark money...
Cutting Health Benefits of 1,900 Whole Food Workers Saved World’s Richest Man Jeff Bezos What He Makes in Less Than Six Hours
When billionaire Jeff Bezos cut health benefits on September 13 for part-time workers at his grocery store Whole Foods the...
Off by $1 Trillion — Two-Year Anniversary of Mnuchin Lie That Trump Tax Cuts Would Slash Deficit
“A treasury secretary who can’t count needs to be held accountable.” That was the message progressive advocacy group Americans for...
Trump Breaks The Law Every Time Taxpayer Money Is Spent At One Of His Properties
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) explained that Trump is not allowed to take any money from the taxpayers beyond his salary,...
UN Warns That Climate Change Is Greatest Threat To Human Rights
According to UN Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet, there is no greater threat to human rights across the globe than climate...
Warren Unveils “Most Sweeping Set of Anti-Corruption Reforms Since Watergate”
Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat corruption in U.S. politics with...
AFL-CIO Chief: Trump Has Opposed Every Increase in the Minimum Wage
In an interview ahead of Labor Day, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka said workers across the nation are suffering under President...
Elizabeth Warren Welcomes Wall Street Fear of Her Campaign
Her poll numbers have risen steadily in recent weeks but Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday night celebrated a contingent of voters...
Crook Trump: Air Force Planes Diverted to Trump’s Scottish Golf Resort
There have been so many Trump scandals that it seems impossible to keep them straight without a scorecard, but the...
The Corporate Media Owes Al Gore an Apology
I remember when Gore stood before Congress and gaveled in the proceedings that certified his election loss. He was repeatedly...
United Electrical Union Endorses Green New Deal and Global Climate Strike
Embracing the Green New Deal as “our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of...
Budget office reveals ‘King of Debt’ Donald Trump is overseeing a skyrocketing deficit
Hold on to your knickers, folks, that federal deficit is hiking up quickly and “king of debt” Donald Trump wants more,...
Drug makers flooded US with billions of opioid pills as epidemic surged, data shows
Drug makers and distributors flooded the US with more than 75bn opioid pills in the crucial years when the country’s epidemic...
Shell Oil Made Workers Attend Trump Event By Threatening Not To Pay Them
Shell officials in Beaver County, PA gave workers a choice, they could either attend Trump’s event or not be paid...
Trump’s Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards Could Cost Americans $460 Billion
A new analysis from the nonprofit advocacy group Consumer Reports warns that American drivers could lose about $460 billion dollars in fuel...
Trump Guts Endangered Species Act in Gift to Big Business
Environmentalists denounced the Trump administration for crashing a “bulldozer” through the Endangered Species Act on Monday after the Interior Department...
Former Republican consultant busts party as racists who want tax cuts for the rich
In a furious tweetstorm, a former adviser to the Ohio Republican Party expressed disgust at how far the GOP has...
