Billion Dollar Baby Donald Trump Says Wages Are Too High
In case you thought it was a gaffe last night during the debate, asked this morning whether he would support...
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Marco Rubio’s Crazy Tax Scheme: An Unprecedented Giveaway to the One Percent
Last week, Citizens for Tax Justice, a liberal think tank that uses mainstream economic tax modeling, analyzed Marco Rubio’s tax-cut...
Hillary Clinton addresses Fight for 15 protesters: “Your advocacy is changing our country for the better.”
Fast-food strikers got a boost to their campaign on Tuesday morning, when Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton personally tweeted out...
TPP: The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History
The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries...
How Unions Fight Inequality and Strengthen Democracy
A new study from the International Monetary Fund concludes that unions reduce inequality and foster a healthier economy for everyone,...
Sanders: Republicans Are Un-American Cowards For Trying To Suppress The Vote
At the First in the South Presidential Candidates Forum with Rachel Maddow in South Carolina, Bernie Sanders blasted Republicans as...
Jeb Bush’s Tax Plan Treats the Top 1% to an Average Tax Cut of Nearly $180,000
A Citizens for Tax Justice analysis of Jeb Bush’s tax plan reveals that it would cut taxes by $7.1 trillion[i]...
Pentagon gave sports franchises taxpayer money to promote military
The best kind of patriotism is the compulsory kind. And the best kind of compulsory patriotism is that most American...
For Exxon Mobil, Profit Is More Important Than Life Itself
It may be hard to accept, but a single company may have set back all of humanity. Had Exxon Mobil...
Hillary Clinton Calls for Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $12 Per Hour
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday at two campaign stops in Iowa that she would like to...
How Marco Rubio became the plutocrats’ favorite candidate
The Sunday shows yesterday featured pretty much nothing but Republicans rehashing their debate and celebrating the ascension of Paul Ryan...
Montana Becomes 30th State To Expand Medicaid Under ObamaCare
The Obama administration gave final approval to Montana’s Medicaid expansion plan, making the Big Sky State the 30th U.S. state...
Reckless House Republicans Try To Slip Bank Deregulation Into Highway Bill
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are angling to slip two pieces of bank deregulation into a major highway funding bill that...
Republican Scott Walker Signs Bill to Prohibit Investigations Into Bribery and Political Corruption
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed a bill on Friday that’s designed to prohibit certain investigations into bribery and political...
Vile Koch Brothers Spend Millions To Eliminate Solar Power in Sunny Florida
With the nickname “The Sunshine State,” it would make sense for Florida to be a leader in solar energy in...
Environmental groups call for investigation of Exxon for ‘misleading public’ on climate
Leading US environmental campaigners have joined a diverse line-up of pressure groups to demand a federal investigation into allegations that...
Congressional Republicans Target Scientists For Harassment and Intimidation
Science is broadly defined as a systematic enterprise that gathers, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations...
Bernie Sanders Walks Verizon Picket Line
In a rare move for a major presidential candidate, Democratic hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined a picket line with...
Kochs Have Their Tentacles Firmly In Wisconsin Through Their Puppet Scott Walker
Starting today, three bills are being rammed through the Wisconsin legislature that will put the final nails in the coffin...
Bank CEOs Attempt to Weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
You’ll never guess who’s going around Washington, trolling the halls of Congress, talking about the importance of protecting the long-term...
Republicans Appear Terrified of Union Power
Republicans love to try out new attacks on new groups of American citizens, but when push comes to shove, they’ll...
Iceland Doesn’t Coddle Criminal Bankers Like America Does
Reykjavík, Iceland – In stark contrast to the record low number of prosecutions of CEOs and high-level financial executives in...
Right-Winger Paul Ryan Demands Family Time For Himself, But Opposes Family Leave For American Workers
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is demanding family leave for himself every single weekend, but he has refused to support virtually...
Republican Leaders Afraid of Allowing Certain Citizens to Vote
In a press briefing today, Press Secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged that “the amount of time and energy that Republicans have...
Duke Energy: Scheming with the Billionaire Koch Brothers to Kill Solar Power
“Duke Energy is front and center in a new report connecting the company to a national network of utility interest...
Papa John’s Pays Out Half A Million In Wage Theft Settlement
Four current and former Papa John’s Franchisees in New York City have agreed to a 500,000 dollar settlement to pay...
Robert Reich: 3 Good Reasons You Should Dismiss Right-wing Economists
Congress is heading into another big brawl over the federal budget deficit, the national debt, and the debt ceiling. Republicans...
Exxon’s climate change denial may warrant prosecution
Members of Congress have asked for a federal investigation into whether ExxonMobil broke the law by intentionally obscuring the truth...
Bernie Sanders rejects meeting and donation from greed-head drug CEO Martin Shkreli
The most hated man in America — at least a couple weeks ago — just got the back of Bernie...
Koch-Backed Republicans Want To Eliminate America’s National Parks
It is hardly a secret that Republicans wholly-support and agree with their masters, the Koch brothers, that every sector of...
Delusional Jeb Bush Advocates Causing A Recession So ‘We Can Have Economic Prosperity’
It might be easy enough to believe Jeb Bush was simply coloring outside the lines of a “shrink government” philosophy...
Florida Legislators Take the ‘Minimum Wage Challenge’ and Fail
A group of 20 Florida Democrats took the “Minimum Wage Challenge” and attempted to live on the state’s minimum wage...
Bernie Sanders: ‘Congress Doesn’t Regulate Wall Street. Wall Street Regulates Congress.’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) criticized Hillary Clinton for not going after Wall Street enough at Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate. Clinton...
Just 158 families have provided half of the money to try to capture the White House
They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women,...
Reflections on ‘Deep Poverty’
The Constitution’s Framers set as one of the new government’s priorities providing for the “general Welfare,” but that progressive mandate...
Right Wing Koch Brothers Go to War Against Solar Energy
The Koch brothers, Duke Energy and Arizona Public Service are among 12 special interest groups waging aggressive anti-solar campaigns across...
Obama Slams Republicans For Assaulting The Middle Class With Their Attacks On Unions
President Obama is hosting the first-ever White House Summit on Worker Voice today, during which he condemned the “culture of...
U.S. Corporations Stash $2.1 Trillion Overseas to Dodge Taxes
The 500 largest American corporations are hiding over $2 trillion in total profits in offshore tax havens in order to...
Bernanke: Wall Street Executives Should Have Done Jail Time
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says some Wall Street executives should have gone to jail for their roles in...
Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate Securities Fraud Convictions Against Hedge Fund Managers
The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court Thursday to reinstate securities fraud convictions against two hedge fund portfolio managers, saying...
Elizabeth Warren Exposes the Republican Trickle Down Con
Last week, Elizabeth Warren appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she hammered the Republicans’ refusal to give...
Unions Celebrate as the Koch Brother’s Pawn Scott Walker Exits Presidential Race
Unions are celebrating the rapid demise of union busting national disgrace, Scott Walker. Larry Hanley, international president of the Amalgamated...
Tax Havens and the New U.S. Aristocracy
To Gabriel Zucman, protégé of rock star French economist Thomas Piketty, the United States is starting to look a lot...
