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,...
Author: onepercenttakers
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...
Pope Francis Forgoes Lunch with Politicians to Dine with the Homeless
We now know why the United States Congress absolutely did not want Pope Francis to come to America. He makes...
Target Employees Score Victory, Form Union in New York
A group of Target pharmacy employees in Brooklyn, NY voted to unionize, making them the first union in Target’s century-long...
Republicans Want to Spend $130 Million Taxpayer Dollars to Defund Planned Parenthood
Senate Republicans are set to vote to defund Planned Parenthood Thursday afternoon, which is going to increase government spending by...
Corporate Climate Deniers/Sponsors May Be Investigated Under RICO
Climate-change denial has been compared to Big Tobacco’s 50-year-campaign to deny the dangers of cigarettes… Read more…
Wall Street Mouthpiece Jamie Dimon Defends Income Inequality
Despite stagnating wages and vast income inequality, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said technological advancements in cars and cellphones mean...
Murdoch’s propaganda organ the Wall Street Journal attacks Bernie Sanders
I’ve had so many calls about an article appearing earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal – charging that...
The Koch Brothers Believe that Spending a Billion Dollars Will Buy Them a Lot of Politicians
Republicans understand the fundamentals of electoral politics in a way that should absolutely terrify the Democratic Party. It goes like...
Cities Could Save $17 Trillion By Reducing CO2 Emissions
Making cities greener could save a lot of, well, green, according to a new report. The report, published Tuesday by...
Cutting Pentagon Waste Will Help America’s Middle Class
The average cost of childcare in the United States now exceeds the cost of in-state college tuition. And since the...
Democratic Governor Cuomo Proposes State-Wide $15 Minimum Wage
On Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) will become the first governor to call for a $15 minimum wage...
Top Oil Executives Get Rich While Destroying the Climate
A new study has found that top oil and gas executives receive massive bonuses for making decisions that ultimately have...
Jeb Bush Campaigns on Giving More Tax Cuts to the Rich
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush outlined a tax plan on Wednesday that broadly resembles the tax platform presented in 2000...
Ohio Governor Kasich’s Corrupt Corporate Charter School Failure
It surprises no-one, not even the racist and religious Republican base that the GOP exists first and foremost to advance...
Sanders: Wall Street Has Rigged the Economy for the 1%
Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders gathered a panel of economists in Washington DC to discuss the Greek debt fiasco. As...
Labor Day Parades Across America Show Growing Support for Unions
The nation’s growing support for unions is a huge sign of encouragement for those who have watched the attempts to...
Colorado Invests in Community Solar Projects
In what is described as being the first statewide initiative of its kind, Colorado has awarded a grant of $1.2...
Pope Francis Calls On The Rich And Powerful To ‘Care’ For The Planet
He’s been criticized by Catholics and conservatives. He was even called the “most dangerous person on the planet” for his views on...
Bush Made Millions Giving His Friends At Lehman Billions Of Florida Pension Funds To Lose
For many Americans the idea of entrusting their life-savings, or retirement savings, to a trustworthy entity is a very serious...
Labor Board Ruling Makes It Easier for Fast-Food Workers to Unionize
McDonald’s, Burger King and every other company that relies on a franchise business model just suffered the legal setback they’ve...
Greed-head Charles Koch Objects to Being Called Out by President Obama
It would be a stretch to find a person over the age of seven that has never heard, or cannot...
Scott Walker’s Plan To Take Away Heath Insurance Would Kill 9,800 Americans A Year
Scott Walker has unveiled his plan to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a system that would kill an estimated...
Robert Reich: Corporate Welfare is Sucking the Life Out of Ordinary Americans
Corporate welfare is often camouflaged in taxes that seem neutral on their face but give windfalls to big entrenched corporations...
Why Down to Earth Republicans Support Bernie
Ann Coulter knows who she wants to be the Democratic nominee for president, and who that person is, well, it...
Paul Krugman: GOP candidates promise government by the One Percent, for the One Percent
In his Monday column, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman argued that desire by almost the entire Republican field of...
Approval Of Labor Unions Among Americans Jumps To Six Year High
More evidence that America is becoming more liberal can be found in a new poll that revealed growing public support...
Social Security: 80 Years Old and Still Going Strong Despite Attacks from Conservatives
Social Security is one of the most popular and successful government programs in US history. For 80 years, in strong...
