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...
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Report: Rising inequality hurts economic growth
The widening gap between haves and have-nots in much of the developed world not only raises concerns about the fraying...
Democrat Busts Republican Scheme to Screw With Medicare To Benefit Corporations
During a Health Subcommittee Hearing on Competition in Medicare, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) busted Republicans for trying to elimate competition...
‘Fight for 15’ protest shuts down McDonald’s HQ
The corporate office of McDonald’s in Oak Brook, Illinois was closed after thousands of workers and union activists marched on...
Bernie Sanders Plans To Make College Free By Raising Taxes On Wall Street
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled legislation today that would make tuition free at all public four-year colleges and universities by...
Big Banks Fined Billions For Currency Manipulation Scheme
The Department of Justice announced the guilty pleas of five big banks: Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays PLC, The...
Los Angeles Votes To Raise Minimum Wage To $15
Los Angeles on Tuesday became the biggest U.S. city to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour. Following a...
This Billionaire Tried To Get University Scientists Fired For Doing Their Job
Despite a growing body of scientific research connecting oil and gas activity to a dramatic spike in earthquakes across several...
Bernie Sanders Is Terrifying Wall Street By Pushing Hillary Clinton To The Left
Wall Street is openly worrying that Bernie Sanders is pushing Hillary Clinton to the left by calling for the biggest...
Obama Rips Fox News For Spreading Class Warfare Propaganda
While speaking at Georgetown University, the President called out Fox News by name: “But part of it has also been...
GOP-Koch Drive To Privatize Rail Service Caused Deadly Amtrak Derailment
It is nearly impossible to keep track of the myriad ways America is falling behind the rest of the industrialized...
Scott Walker Wrecks Wisconsin And Proves That Tax Cuts For The Rich Don’t Work
Governor Scott Walker promised Wisconsinites that he could jump start the economy with tax cuts for big business, even though...
Bernie Sanders Delivers A Body Blow To Wall St With New Bill To Break Up The Big Banks
Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking on Wall Street directly with a new bill that would break up the nation’s “too...
Governor Brownback’s Trickle Down ‘Experiment’ is Turning Schools into Poorhouses
At least eight school districts in Kansas are closing their doors early for the summer as a result of Kansas...
The IRS Is Investigating The Koch Brothers’ Illegal Tax-Deductions Denying Climate Change
There are myriad reasons why someone has intense hostility towards, and aversion to, a person or thing that typically derives...
Study: Thirty-five Years of Conservative Policies Contributed to Violence In Baltimore
Ayn Rand devotee Paul Ryan weighed in on the reason for violence in Baltimore and used it to continue his...
Fight for $15 swells into largest protest by low-wage workers in US history
McDonald’s workers will gatecrash the burger company’s shareholder meeting later this month with “the biggest-ever protest” demanding an end to...
Democratic bill aims to hike U.S. minimum wage to $12
Nearly 38 million Americans — or one in four workers– would get a raise under a bill introduced this week...
On Day One Of His Presidential Campaign, Bernie Sanders Is The Kochs Worst Nightmare
At a press conference where he laid out his agenda, Sen. Sanders took on the Koch brothers: “The major issue...
Robert Reich: The wealthy have broken society by siphoning all its money to themselves
Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, published an essay in the most recent American Prospect in which...
Obama Stands Up For Veterans By Vowing To Veto GOP Bill That Cut Benefits For 70,000 Vets
While Congressional Republicans wave the flag with one hand, they are trying to cut benefits for 70,000 veterans with the...
Bernie Sanders Reveals That Republican Budget Kills 2.3 Million Jobs
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dropped a bomb on Senate Republicans by revealing that their budget would kill more than 2...
The Koch Brothers Try To Fool The American People With A Deceitful PR Campaign
It has been just about a year since Charles Koch wrote a ‘woe is me’ op-ed to combat the bad...
Job Killing GOP Governors Have Resumes That Should Disqualify Them From Being President
Three sitting Republican Governors interested in seeking a promotion to become U.S. President, represent states that have posted well-below average...
How Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 Changed These Workers’ Lives
SEATAC, Washington — In late 2013, voters in this airport town outside Seattle narrowly approved a groundbreaking measure setting a...
Governor Snyder’s Plan To Erase Public Education In Detroit
Here in Detroit, the worst of what many of us have long suspected about Gov. Snyder’s intentions toward our city...
Obama Outsmarts Republicans With Planned Executive Action To Raise Wages For Millions
President Obama has outsmarted Congressional Republican obstructionists with a planned executive action that will raise the wages of millions of...
The Koch Brothers Have Picked Scott Walker To Be Their 2016 Presidential Puppet
The Koch’s didn’t say why Jeb Bush isn’t their “chosen one,” but odds are that it is because Bush doesn’t...
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback Is Stealing From Taxpayers To Enrich Banks
It is beyond refute that Republicans have devised some truly cruel means of stealing from taxpayers and the poor to...
Bernie Sanders Calls For A Mobilization Of Millions Of Americans To Take Down The Kochs
Unless the American people mobilize and stand up to billionaires, like the Koch brothers, no Democratic president can succeed with...
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...
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...
