Top Democrats In Congress To Release Unapologetically Progressive Tax Plan
In a sharp departure from party leaders’ proposals over the last few years, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today announced...
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Democrats Gear Up to Battle Wall Street in the New Congress
Democrats appear to have learned some lessons from their 2014 mid-term whipping. Numerous analysts said the lack of a coherent...
Thom Hartmann Discusses the Corporate War On Solar Power
Thom Hartmann and Brendan Fischer discuss the war waged by ALEC, the Kochs, and the Waltons against the ability for...
Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”
We feature our April 2014 interview with Matt Taibbi about his book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of...
Bernie Sanders Exposes Republican Scheme To Cut Social Security For The Disabled
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is warning that Republicans are plotting to cut Social Security benefits for 11 million disabled Americans...
GOP’s First Step To Inflict Kansas Economic Woes On America
There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous...
Elizabeth Warren Says Economy Is ‘Rigged’ Against Workers
WASHINGTON — With a celebrity assist from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the AFL-CIO union federation hosted what it billed as...
John Boehner Votes to Create 35 Jobs! It’s a Jobgasm!
You can no longer say House Republicans are opposed to job creation. Set aside for a moment President Obama’s creation...
‘Right to Work’ Benefits CEOs, Not Workers
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place...
House Republicans Pass Bill That Would Take Away Health Insurance From 1 Million Workers
House Republicans passed a bill would take away health insurance from at least 1 million workers by a vote of...
ALEC Sharpens Attack on Environmental Safeguards
After being accused of “literally lying” about climate change by one of its own high-profile business members, excoriated for being...
Democrats Decry Social Security Sneak Attack
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Social Security advocates are accusing House Republicans of launching a sneak attack on disability insurance on...
Matt Taibbi and “The $9 Billion Witness” Who Exposed How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy
In holiday special, we feature a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive interview with Alayne Fleischmann, the whistleblower who helped the Justice...
Robert Reich: When we give up on democracy, the 1 percent ‘run everything and they get everything’
Former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich produced a short “2014 Year in Review” video in which he reminded...
Bernie Sanders Flexes His Muscles By Introducing Bill To Create 13 Million New Jobs
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today will introduce legislation when the new session of Congress convenes this month to...
More lethal than the Whopper: How Burger King pleases the 1 percent, screws its workers
For the past year, I’ve worked at a Burger King in Tampa, Florida, making $9 an hour. Taxes are taken...
Congress Spreads Joy to the 1 Percent
Towards the end of 2014, Americans averted yet another government shutdown. Congress passed, and Obama signed, a 1.1 trillion dollar...
Millions Of Workers Will Get A Raise On New Years Day
On January 1, 20 states will raise their minimum wages, while one — New York — will increase its wage...
New Report: We’re Subsidizing the Forbes 400
In its latest listing of America’s wealthiest individuals, Forbes magazine for the first time ranks the members of the top...
Judge Takes Away Minimum Wage Protections From Home Care Workers
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon struck down a rule change issued by the Department of Labor that would...
Federal labor board decisions are a bonanza for unions
The federal agency in charge of adjudicating labor disputes has released not one but several major decisions benefiting labor unions...
Minimum wage hike coming at more than 1,400 Walmart stores
Minimum wage increases will prompt Walmart Stores Inc to adjust base salaries at 1,434 stores, impacting about a third of...
Opinion: Shame is good. Shame is right. Shame works.
Does trumpeting scoundrels’ misdeeds set them straight? Edward Lampert, chairman and CEO of Sears Holdings, received positive reviews from only...
American Society’s Real Moochers: CEOs
Holiday bells are silent in the homes of America’s struggling working poor, even with gasoline prices at their lowest levels...
Labor board attorney backs up claims McDonald’s violated labor rights
Fast-food chain McDonald’s illegally retaliated against workers who participated in union organizing activities, the general counsel for the National Labor...
Sanders Has a Couple More Good Ideas: Break Up Big Banks, Expand Social Security
Promising to put forth and lobby on behalf of two bold progressive policy ideas in the months ahead, Sen. Bernie...
How Newt Gingrich’s Language Guru Helped Rebrand the Kochs’ Message
For the Koch brothers’ donor network, the 2012 elections were a keen disappointment. Not only did they lose what Charles...
Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union Busting Bill in Wisconsin
Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the...
The Next Frontier for Workers’ Rights
In late November, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights — the first law...
Coal industry’s go-to law firm withheld evidence of black lung, at expense of sick miners
BECKLEY, W.Va. — The stately, wood-paneled chamber in the federal building here unsettled Gary Fox and his wife, Mary. Fox...
The Koch Wall Street Crusade To Rob Pensions Is Underway
If anyone in America was unsure what unmitigated greed entails, or to what extent the Koch brothers and Wall Street...
Government by Wall Street: JPMorgan CEO whipped votes for spending bill
The House’s narrow passage of a massive spending bill that included a provision gutting a key financial regulatory reform is...
Walmart Threatened Workers For Trying To Organize, Judge Rules
(Reuters) – An administrative law judge found Walmart threatened employees trying to organize workers at two stores in California, in...
Bernie Sanders Unveils a 12 Point Economic Plan to Break the Koch Oligarchs
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a twelve point economic plan that if enacted would break...
Why Our Lives Feel Squeezed: 400 Reasons
We don’t know who exactly filed the tax returns with America’s 400 largest incomes in 2010. The IRS won’t reveal...
Congress Refuses to Add to the Deficit—Except When Giving Tax Breaks to Big Business
Congress routinely allows huge packages of nominally temporary tax incentives, loopholes, deductions, and credits to expire, only to revive them...
Are Republicans Nostalgic for the Gilded Age?
The Republican Party today could be rechristened the Party of the Second Gilded Age. Hostility to abortion and affirmative action,...
Koch-linked organization uses ‘dark money’ to fight political disclosure
As the Internal Revenue Service contemplates new rules to illuminate “dark money” in politics, a little-known nonprofit group is fighting...
Leaked: The Oil Lobby’s Plan to Kill Off California’s Climate Law
You remember Fillmore. He’s the resident hippie of Radiator Springs in the Pixar blockbuster Cars. Much to the chagrin of...
Fast food workers plan nationwide strike for December 4
Fast food workers in at least 150 cities nationwide will walk off the job on Dec. 4, demanding an industry-wide...
The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy
Some people say inequality doesn’t matter. They are wrong. All we have to do to see its effects is to...
Robert Reich: The 1 percent is gutting America’s middle class
The richest Americans hold more of the nation’s wealth than they have in almost a century. What do they spend...
Walmart workers plan Black Friday strike
For the third Black Friday running, America’s largest retailer is expected to face labor protests at locations across the country....
Kmart Workers Say They Risk Being Fired If They Don’t Come In On Thanksgiving
While Kmart has claimed that stores try to staff shifts on Thanksgiving Day, which will begin before 6 a.m., with...
Scott Walker: Denying Health Care To Low-Income People Helps Them ‘Live The American Dream’
Defending his fellow Republican governors’ decision to block Medicaid expansion in their states, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Friday...
How CEOs Are Rigging The Game To Get Paid More
The paranoid water-cooler lament that the boss has rigged the rules so that he will get paid even if he...
