Trump Approves $4.5 Trillion in Welfare for Corporations; Objects to $1 Billion Price Tag for 80,000 Ventilators
President Donald Trump is expected as early as the end of this week to sign legislation that would establish a $4.5...
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Rand Paul’s Office Won’t Say How He Got Coronavirus Tested Before Sick People
Sen. Rand Paul’s office has refused to say how the Senator from Kentucky was able to get tested for coronavirus...
Trump Taps Former Attorney Of Trophy Hunting Group For Key Wildlife Job
The Trump administration has hired Anna Seidman, formerly a longtime lawyer at the trophy hunting advocacy group Safari Club International,...
Virus Relief Bill Would Allow Mnuchin To Hand Out $500 Million ‘Slush Fund’ To Secret Corporations
The White House on Sunday reportedly refused to back down from its demand that a coronavirus relief package include $500...
It’s morally repulsive how corporations are exploiting this crisis. Workers will suffer: Robert Reich
Societies gripped by cataclysmic wars, depressions, or pandemics can become acutely sensitive to power and privilege. Weeks before the coronavirus...
How the coronavirus crisis revealed the danger of the decades-long conservative movement
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell smelled an evil liberal conspiracy on Thursday, one designed to steal away his decades of...
Trump blocks states from expanding Medicaid to fight coronavirus
As states across the U.S. struggle to contain the novel coronavirus and treat those who have been infected, the Trump...
How Mitch McConnell and the do-nothing Republican senators serve the will of Trump and GOP fat cats: Robert Reich
Led by the self-proclaimed Grim Reaper, the Republican-controlled Senate has refused to take up nearly 400 bills passed by the...
Sanders Applauds New Medicare for All Study: Will Save Americans $450 Billion and Prevent 68,000 Deaths
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday applauded a new study published today by a team of epidemiologists in the peer-reviewed medical...
Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency – that should set off alarms: Robert Reich
We haven’t seen his name on any of the ballots in the first four states, but that’s about to change....
Slices of Real Pie Show the Huge Wealth Gap in the U.S.
A four minute video that aired on CBS Friday morning was praised for using slices of real pie to show the huge...
Trump ‘described an imagined economic record and he pretended it was real’ during SOTU speech: fact checker
During his State of the Union address this Tuesday night, President Trump touted the strong economic winds currently blowing around...
Republican lawmakers personally made millions from their giant tax cut: report
Although the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 did precious little to reduce the tax burden of middle-class Americans,...
Trump Is Taking Bribes And Selling Access To The White House
Trump is pocketing money from donors and giving them access to the White House and the scam is being run...
How Big Pharma twists the law to its will and leaves Americans worse off
Big Pharma spends a small fortune every year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re...
Inequality in the Trump economy just keeps getting worse
Every month when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its monthly jobs report, Donald Trump and Republicans crow about the...
How Trump quietly handed billions more in tax breaks to huge corporations
A “disturbing” New York Times story published Monday detailed how President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department, led by former Goldman Sachs banker Steve...
Robert Reich: The biggest business con of 2019 — fleecing workers while bosses get rich
Corporate social responsibility is the second-biggest con of 2019 (Donald Trump remains in first place). Consider Boeing, whose board just...
Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Winter Vacation Pushes Taxpayer Golf Tab Above $118 million
President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit...
Amazon, Chevron, and Starbucks Among 91 Fortune 500 Corporations That Paid $0 in Federal Income Taxes
More than 90 large, profitable corporations on the Fortune 500 list effectively did not pay a penny in federal income...
Robert Reich: How Trump has betrayed the working class
Trump’s corporate giveaways and failure to improve the lives of ordinary working Americans are becoming clearer by the day. Trump...
New data shows income of top 1 percent has grown 100 times faster than bottom 50 percent since 1970
New data released Monday explains the numbers behind Sen. Bernie Sanders’ often-cited statistic that the three richest Americans hold more...
Elizabeth Warren Slams Moderate Rivals, Defends Progressive Vision
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Elizabeth Warren lashed out Thursday at her moderate Democratic rivals seeking the White House, accusing them...
Trump Takes Food Away From 755,000 Americans Before Christmas
The Trump administration has finalized a rule change to the SNAP program that will take away food from 755,000 Americans...
Poll Finds That Even Most Republicans Back Warren’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax
New polling results released Friday find broad support for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax, with Americans across most demographic...
Trump Busted For Bank And Tax Fraud In Newly Obtained Documents
Property documents reveal that Donald Trump has been listing higher values on his loan applications and lower values on his...
Robert Reich: Republicans and even some Democrats are out to scare you about Medicare for All
The typical American family now spends $6,000 on health insurance premiums each year. Add in the co-payments and deductibles that...
Warren Suggests Corporate Media Ask Working People, Not Just the Very Rich, About Her Wealth Tax
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday evening called out the news media for focusing their coverage of her proposed Ultra-Millionaires Tax largely...
Bernie Sanders says Bloomberg’s moves toward 2020 bid shows ‘billionaire class is scared’
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday night that America’s billionaire class is “scared,” and rightly so, after numerous outlets reported that...
Robert Reich: Billionaires fear Warren and Sanders – but they should fear us all
Billionaires are wailing that wealth tax proposals by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are attacks on free-market capitalism. Warren “vilifies...
Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million for Charity Fraud
A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to personally pay $2 million to settle the state attorney general’s...
How Warren’s plan to take profit out of health care would lift millions of families out of poverty
Poverty makes people sick. Families in poverty are more likely than wealthy families to get sick, stay sick, and delay...
‘Tax Dodger-in-Chief’ Trump Changes Permanent Residency From New York to Florida
In the midst of a heated court battle with Manhattan over his tax returns, President Donald Trump announced Thursday night...
Elizabeth Warren Proves That Most Americans Will Get a Big Tax Break Under Medicare for All
It won’t be a burden. It will be a relief. And for the large majority of those living in the...
Democrats Take Aim at ‘Trust Fund Babies’ With Estate Tax Designed to Combat Wealth Inequality
California Congressman Jimmy Gomez on Friday introduced legislation in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House that aims to address “our country’s rapidly...
Government To Borrow One Trillion Dollars To Pay For Tax Cuts For Billionaires
The Treasury Department is being forced to borrow a staggering $1 trillion for the coming fiscal year, after the Republican...
ExxonMobil is still bankrolling climate science deniers
ExxonMobil says it believes “the risk of climate change is real,” and it is “committed to being part of the...
Trump Responds To Impeachment By Trying To Take Away Free School Meals From A Million Kids
The Trump administration is trying to change eligibility requirements so that 1 million kids would lose access to free school...
Swamp Gets Larger: Report Details 281 Lobbyists in Trump Administration Over First Two Years
A new report from ProPublica and Columbia Journalism Investigations, published Tuesday, found that President Donald Trump’s campaign vow to “drain the swamp”...
Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Holding Secret Meetings With Conservatives
According to a new report by Politico, and confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg himself, the Facebook CEO has been secretly meeting...
America’s richest 400 families now pay a lower tax rate than the middle class
The U.S. tax system is supposed to be progressive, meaning that wealthier households pay a larger share of their income...
Trump’s Business Holdings in Turkey Sets His Foreign Policy For The Region
Trump Towers in Istanbul is a major part of Trump’s business portfolio. “The Turks are also the top patrons of...
The Trump Administration Wants Restaurant Servers To Do More Work For Less Pay
The Trump administration is trying once again to tweak the rules that govern how tipped workers are paid. This time,...
Healthcare Ad Spending Exceeds $65 Million in 2019 as Insurance Industry Ramps Up Effort to Kill Medicare for All
An Axios analysis released Wednesday found that spending on healthcare advertisements has exceeded $65 million in 2019 as dark money...
Cutting Health Benefits of 1,900 Whole Food Workers Saved World’s Richest Man Jeff Bezos What He Makes in Less Than Six Hours
When billionaire Jeff Bezos cut health benefits on September 13 for part-time workers at his grocery store Whole Foods the...
Off by $1 Trillion — Two-Year Anniversary of Mnuchin Lie That Trump Tax Cuts Would Slash Deficit
“A treasury secretary who can’t count needs to be held accountable.” That was the message progressive advocacy group Americans for...
