Jeb Bush Boards The GOP Crazy Train With His Proposal To Raise The Social Security Retirement Age
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush proposed raising the social security retirement age during a Friday speech at Saint Anselm College’s...
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Progressive Democrats Vow To Defeat Fast Track Authority on TPP
Liberals like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are uniting with moderate Democrats to oppose a Senate plan to...
How do corporations avoid paying taxes?
For most Americans, Tax Day is one of the most agonizing days of the year. But many multi-billion dollar companies...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Get Corporations to Pay Their Fair Share
Sen. Bernie Sanders drops a bomb on corporations who are dodging taxes by hiding money overseas by introducing new legislation...
Obama Calls Out Republicans About Their Plan To Cut Taxes For The Rich
President Obama used facts and math to reveal the true agenda behind the Republican plan to cut taxes for the...
Hotel Industry Calls Wage Hikes For Workers ‘Extreme’ While Its CEOs Rake in Millions
Hotels are making a killing. Occupancy rates are exceeding pre-recession highs, and are expected to reach record levels in 2016....
Protests For $15 Minimum Wage Are Heating Up
The Fight for $15 campaign to win higher pay and a union for fast-food workers is expanding to represent a...
GOP Controlled House Votes To Give Richest 0.2 Percent Of Americans a Tax Cut
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to give a tax break worth $269 billion to the richest few thousand estates...
McDonald’s advises employee to apply for food stamps
The burgeoning battle between fast-food workers and their employers over low wages and benefits was ratcheted up a notch this...
The one percent are parasites: Debunking the lies about free enterprise and trickle-down
‘When did you last get a job from a poor person?’ So goes my favorite Tea Party slogan. The Americans...
Low Wages Cost U.S. Taxpayers $153 Billion A Year
When thousands of low-wage workers across the country protest low pay on Wednesday, they won’t only be fighting for the...
Protesters Disrupt Activist Investor Summit
Activist investors became targets themselves Monday when protesters briefly took over a conference focused on how to shake up companies....
John Boehner To Hold Tax Repeal Vote To Increase Welfare For the One Percent
Despite the ever-widening income gap in America with the poor and middle class losing wealth to the richest Americans in...
Bernie Sanders Shreds Rand Paul By Unmasking His Great Libertarian Fraud
Sen. Sanders was speaking about Rand Paul on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show when he said: He’s a legitimate candidate,...
President Obama Runs Up Big Wins In His Crackdown On Mitt Romneyesque Tax Cheats
The President’s efforts aren’t getting the media attention that deserve, but Obama has cracked down on wealthy tax cheats who...
Bernie Sanders: ‘Higher Education Should Be A Right’
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist and one of Congress’ leading advocates for the working class, says any American...
A Higher Minimum Wage Could Pump $5.9 Billion Into LA’s Economy
The City of Quartz is a city of contrasts, with some of the world’s richest and poorest neighborhoods existing side...
Obama Unveils Smart Plan To Combat Climate Change While Training 75,000 Vets For Jobs
The President said: “I am announcing a new goal to train 75,000 workers to enter the solar industry by 2020....
Bully Sam Brownback Stomps On The Poor While Living Off Of His Wife’s Millions
Back in June of ’96, the Lawrence, Kansas Journal-World did a fiscal check of the Kansas Congressional delegation. Included, was...
How Elizabeth Warren Made Expanding Social Security Cool
For years, Washington politicians and policymakers been talking about cutting Social Security benefits. The Beltway consensus, unduly shaped by deficit...
Koch Front Group ALEC Threatens Progressives With A Lawsuit For Calling Out Its Lies
Most people have a very well-defined threshold that no-one dares cross when it comes to accusing them of some character...
Senator Denies 280,000 People Health Care, Calls Advocate ‘A–hole’ For Asking Him To Give Up Same
On Tuesday night, a Tennessee Senate committee voted to deny some 280,000 state residents access to health care, rejecting a...
Wall Street wants to withhold campaign donations to Senate Democrats because they’re upset with Elizabeth Warren
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Big Wall Street banks are so upset with Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren’s call for them to...
Florida Republican senator denounces Koch brothers: ‘You people serve no purpose’
It’s no secret that the billionaire Koch brothers own the Republican Party – after all, they’ve committed themselves to spending...
Paul Krugman: Power and Paychecks
On Wednesday, McDonald’s — which has been facing demonstrations denouncing its low wages — announced that it would give workers...
Elizabeth Warren Tells Wall Street If They Want To Fight Her, “Bring It On”
Before a packed room in a Manhattan Barnes & Noble bookstore, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) refused to back off...
Obama’s Biggest Victory: 16.4 Million Uninsured Americans Have Gained Health Coverage
16.4 million Americans who were previously uninsured, have gained health insurance coverage, since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed...
Corporate Media Ignores Scott Walker’s Dark Money Controversy
The press has almost entirely ignored the revelation that after the “richest man in Wisconsin” made secret donations benefiting Republican...
GOP Targets America’s Students
Senate Republicans have acted to protect a few millionaires at the expense of millions of students by voting to block...
Obama Gashes Republicans for Trying to Give 4,000 Millionaires a $4 Million Tax Cut
President Obama exposed the Republican agenda by calling out the morally repugnant GOP budget plan to give 4,000 of the...
Republicans Want to Take Away Your Weekend: In Wisconsin, a new bill is threatening to kill workers’ one day of rest.
As Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the so-called “right to work” bill on March 9, making Wisconsin the twenty-fifth right-to-work...
Elizabeth Warren Fires Back After Wall Street Threats
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has a blunt message for the big Wall Street banks that may withhold campaign donations to...
Senate Democrats Consider Raising Their Minimum Wage Proposal To $12
Sen. Patty Murray, ranking member of the Senate’s labor committee, has been reaching out to her Democratic colleagues to rally...
Economist Paul Krugman Calls Republican Budget A Trillion Dollar Con Job
A scam is a fraudulent business scheme, or a swindle, and a deliberate ploy to defraud ignorant, naïve, and stupid...
If We Don’t Overturn Citizens United, Congress Will Become Paid Employees of the Billionaire Class
Here’s what I asked my Senate colleagues to consider: Are we comfortable with an American political system which is being...
GOP Sociopaths Don’t Want Americans To Have Medical Care
It is a good bet that many Americans think they do not personally know a certified sociopath, but they certainly...
Rightie Ted Cruz says he’s signing-up for Obamacare
Ted Cruz — one of the Affordable Care Act’s harshest critics — announced Tuesday that he would be signing up...
Climate-sceptic US senator given funds by BP political action committee
One of America’s most powerful and outspoken opponents of climate change regulation received election campaign contributions that can be traced...
5 signs America is devolving into a plutocracy
Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider...
Christie’s sweetheart deal with ExxonMobil?
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he wants to settle an $8.9 billion environmental lawsuit against ExxonMobil for just $250...
Bernie Sanders Demands War Tax On Millionaires To Pay For GOP Military Spending Increase
Sen. Sanders isn’t just demanding the war tax. He is going to force Republicans to vote on it by proposing...
President Obama Smacks Down Republicans With The Reality Of His Economic Success
President Obama smacked down Republicans today by contrasting his record of economic success with the reality of their trickle down...
Koch-Congress Preparing To Starve the Poor With Drastic Food Stamp Cuts
One of the reasons the Koch brothers invested so heavily in the midterm elections was to put a stop to...
Scott Walker To Cut $300 Million From Universities, Spend $500 Million On A Pro Basketball Stadium
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will unveil a budget Tuesday night that aims to slash hundreds of millions of dollars...
Chris Christie’s New Campaign Strategy? Run On Slashing Social Security and Medicare
Governor Christie, originally touted by the press as the “moderate” candidate in the GOP field, is desperately trying to stay...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill To Lift The Payroll Tax Cap, Ensuring Full Social Security Funding For Nearly 75 Years
Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was a featured speaker at the United Steel Workers 2011 conference in Las Vegas....
