Economist Robert Reich – Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #4: Bust Up Wall Street
When Americans think of how the economic rules are stacked against them, they naturally think of Wall Street. When the...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 25, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
When Americans think of how the economic rules are stacked against them, they naturally think of Wall Street. When the...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 23, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The widening gap between haves and have-nots in much of the developed world not only raises concerns about the fraying...
During a Health Subcommittee Hearing on Competition in Medicare, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) busted Republicans for trying to elimate competition...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 22, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
The corporate office of McDonald’s in Oak Brook, Illinois was closed after thousands of workers and union activists marched on...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled legislation today that would make tuition free at all public four-year colleges and universities by...
The Department of Justice announced the guilty pleas of five big banks: Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays PLC, The...
Los Angeles on Tuesday became the biggest U.S. city to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour. Following a...
Despite a growing body of scientific research connecting oil and gas activity to a dramatic spike in earthquakes across several...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 18, 2015 · Last modified November 16, 2015
Wall Street is openly worrying that Bernie Sanders is pushing Hillary Clinton to the left by calling for the biggest...
While speaking at Georgetown University, the President called out Fox News by name: “But part of it has also been...
It is nearly impossible to keep track of the myriad ways America is falling behind the rest of the industrialized...
Governor Scott Walker promised Wisconsinites that he could jump start the economy with tax cuts for big business, even though...
Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking on Wall Street directly with a new bill that would break up the nation’s “too...
At least eight school districts in Kansas are closing their doors early for the summer as a result of Kansas...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 7, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
There are myriad reasons why someone has intense hostility towards, and aversion to, a person or thing that typically derives...
Ayn Rand devotee Paul Ryan weighed in on the reason for violence in Baltimore and used it to continue his...
McDonald’s workers will gatecrash the burger company’s shareholder meeting later this month with “the biggest-ever protest” demanding an end to...
Nearly 38 million Americans — or one in four workers– would get a raise under a bill introduced this week...
At a press conference where he laid out his agenda, Sen. Sanders took on the Koch brothers: “The major issue...
Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, published an essay in the most recent American Prospect in which...
While Congressional Republicans wave the flag with one hand, they are trying to cut benefits for 70,000 veterans with the...
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dropped a bomb on Senate Republicans by revealing that their budget would kill more than 2...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 28, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
It has been just about a year since Charles Koch wrote a ‘woe is me’ op-ed to combat the bad...
Three sitting Republican Governors interested in seeking a promotion to become U.S. President, represent states that have posted well-below average...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 26, 2015 · Last modified November 16, 2015
SEATAC, Washington — In late 2013, voters in this airport town outside Seattle narrowly approved a groundbreaking measure setting a...
Here in Detroit, the worst of what many of us have long suspected about Gov. Snyder’s intentions toward our city...
President Obama has outsmarted Congressional Republican obstructionists with a planned executive action that will raise the wages of millions of...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 23, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The Koch’s didn’t say why Jeb Bush isn’t their “chosen one,” but odds are that it is because Bush doesn’t...
It is beyond refute that Republicans have devised some truly cruel means of stealing from taxpayers and the poor to...
Unless the American people mobilize and stand up to billionaires, like the Koch brothers, no Democratic president can succeed with...
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush proposed raising the social security retirement age during a Friday speech at Saint Anselm College’s...
Liberals like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are uniting with moderate Democrats to oppose a Senate plan to...
For most Americans, Tax Day is one of the most agonizing days of the year. But many multi-billion dollar companies...
Sen. Bernie Sanders drops a bomb on corporations who are dodging taxes by hiding money overseas by introducing new legislation...
President Obama used facts and math to reveal the true agenda behind the Republican plan to cut taxes for the...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 17, 2015 · Last modified November 17, 2015
Hotels are making a killing. Occupancy rates are exceeding pre-recession highs, and are expected to reach record levels in 2016....
The Fight for $15 campaign to win higher pay and a union for fast-food workers is expanding to represent a...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 16, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to give a tax break worth $269 billion to the richest few thousand estates...
The burgeoning battle between fast-food workers and their employers over low wages and benefits was ratcheted up a notch this...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
‘When did you last get a job from a poor person?’ So goes my favorite Tea Party slogan. The Americans...
When thousands of low-wage workers across the country protest low pay on Wednesday, they won’t only be fighting for the...
Activist investors became targets themselves Monday when protesters briefly took over a conference focused on how to shake up companies....
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Despite the ever-widening income gap in America with the poor and middle class losing wealth to the richest Americans in...
Sen. Sanders was speaking about Rand Paul on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show when he said: He’s a legitimate candidate,...
The President’s efforts aren’t getting the media attention that deserve, but Obama has cracked down on wealthy tax cheats who...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist and one of Congress’ leading advocates for the working class, says any American...
"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.