Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process
Studies have shown a significant correlation between monies spent and the outcome of elections. While there are still instances where...
Category: Politics
GOP Lawmakers Fought To Keep People Uninsured
WASHINGTON — Eight million Americans are insured through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges, President Barack Obama announced Thursday. Wendy TwarDokus...
Koch-Funded Groups Fuel Assault On Kansas Clean Energy Law
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
Reaganomics Killed America’s Middle Class
When we had heavily regulated and taxed capitalism in the post-war era, the largest employer in America was General Motors,...
Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy
A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists.
This State Isn’t Waiting For Congress To Pass A $10.10 Minimum Wage
Maryland’s minimum wage will rise to $10.10 over the next four years under a bill passed Monday night. Gov. Martin...
Pressure Mounts For Higher Federal Minimum Wage
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
Politicians Talk Tough On Tax Haven Reform, But Activists Say Talk Is Cheap
Big players are taking unprecedented steps to stop offshore abuses, but financial crime fighters worry reforms don’t go far enough.
Senate Republicans Unanimously Block Equal Pay Bill
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans unanimously voted against advancing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Forty-three voted against invoking cloture, joined by Independent...
Lawmakers Take the ‘Minimum Wage Challenge’ to Eat Off a Reduced Budget for a Week
Rashida Tlaib is a state representative in Michigan. But on Wednesday when she checked out at her grocery store, she...
For Adelson, Koch Brothers, Buying a Politician is Good Business
People like Sheldon Adelson support candidates who are in favor of lowering tax rates for corporations and the super-wealthy —...
Robert Reich Explains the War on the Poor and Working Families
Connect the dots between policies that keep many of our fellow Americans desperate, and you’ll see they add up to...
The Government Listens to Lobbyists and the Wealthy, Not You and Me
When organized interest groups or economic elites want a particular policy passed, there’s a strongly likelihood their wishes will come...
Reid: Koch Brothers Want ‘to Buy America’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accused the Koch brothers of “trying to buy America”.
Ryan Plan Gets 69 Percent of Its Budget Cuts From Programs for People With Low or Moderate Incomes
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new budget cuts $3.3 trillion over ten years (2015-2024) from programs that serve people...
The Republican Budget: An Assault on the Middle Class
(CNN) — Strong countries need a thriving middle class, but in America today, the people who have to work for...
For Services Rendered? Wall Street’s Big Paydays For Trade Negotiators
If you take the king’s shilling, says the old saying, then you do the king’s bidding. So what happens when...
Romney’s Wrong, 1 Percenters Are the True Takers
Yes, there are “takers” in the American economy, but they’re not the poor folks Mitt Romney referenced in his now-infamous...
The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party
There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who...
How Tennessee Politicians Killed Volkswagen Unionization
Right-wing groups may have successfully defeated a unionization bid at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn. manufacturing plant, but it wasn’t a clean...
Big Oil Spends Millions Lobbying for Its Subsidies
A new chart released by Stop Fooling California reveals that the oil industry, including the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron,...
