Robert Reich: The 12 biggest myths about raising taxes on the rich
Some politicians are calling for higher taxes on the rich. Naturally, these proposals have unleashed a torrent of opposition –...
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Clean Tech Jobs Lead Employment Statistics In Twelve US States
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and projections from the Projections Managing Partnership, Yahoo Finance has charted which jobs...
CBO: More than 1 million people have lost insurance under Trump
The Congressional Budget Office released what would have been a bombshell report Thursday, had not the Mueller report eclipsed it. According...
Republican Tax Scam: Consumers Lost $6 Billion, Big Banks Pocketed $28 Billion
The results are in regarding the Republican Tax Scam, and average American citizens are the big losers. According to the...
Insurance CEO Whines That Medicare For All Would Disrupt His Profits
UnitedHealth Group CEO David Wichmann is warning investors that the healthcare market could come crashing down thanks to the push...
Big Oil Invested More Than $1 Billion On Misleading Climate Lobbying
The globe’s five largest publicly-traded oil and gas majors — ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP, and Total — invested...
60 Top Corporations Paid $0 Federal Taxes Under Trump Tax Law
President Donald Trump’s new tax law aided corporations so radically that twice as many companies paid no federal taxes whatsoever in...
Ocasio-Cortez calls out GOP for attacking Green New Deal as ‘socialism’ while bankrolling Big Oil with billions in subsidies
During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Republicans for attacking the Green New Deal...
Robert Reich: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon decries socialism, unless of it’s the banks that need a government bailout
In his annual letter to shareholders, distributed last week, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took aim at socialism, warning it...
Warren Unveils Bill to Punish Criminal CEOs
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation Wednesday that would make it easier to imprison corporate executives whose companies commit crimes...
Heath Insurance Industry Tries To Buy Off Democrats To Stop Medicare For All
According to a new analysis by Think Progress, healthcare groups are ramping up their spending and giving to Democrats on...
The Republican party is the political arm of the fossil fuel industry
For Republicans, the climate crisis is a joke. On Tuesday in the Senate, Mike Lee, a Republican senator for Utah,...
The Green New Deal is already happening in several cities and states
Last week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, along with 66 House representatives and 10 Senators, introduced their highly-laudedGreen New...
Exxon’s Misinformation Campaign To Face Public Scrutiny As Legal Woes Mount
It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet...
US Clean Energy Jobs Outnumber Fossil Fuel Jobs Three to One
Last year’s downturn in solar installations put a damper on the clean energy party in the US, but that’s only...
How Medicare for all would drastically lower prescription drug prices
Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-WA) recently introduced Medicare for All Act of 2019 is a powerful and comprehensive plan to make...
$28 Billion in Tax Cuts Last Year Went to Banks
As reports continue to come out from angry American voters saying that their tax refunds are shriveling or that they...
Taxpayers — not Big Pharma — have funded the research behind new drugs
Something odd happened when the Trump administration submitted the original version of its latest pro-corporate budget: Big Pharma didn’t like...
California’s $100 Million 2019 Low Income Solar Program
California’s investor-owned utilities are preparing to spend up to $100 million this year bringing solar to low income buildings, with...
The Trump-GOP Tax Law Continues To Crater As Refunds Plummet By 17 Percent
The Trump-Republican tax scam continued to rear its ugly head for the third straight week as figures released late Friday...
The gap between productivity and worker pay has increased dramatically since 1973
Most Americans believe that a rising tide should lift all boats—that as the economy expands, everybody should reap the rewards....
Billionaire Howard Schultz is no patriot: Robert Reich
America is the only place in the world where any citizen over the age of 35 can run for president....
Fossil Fuel Companies Give 7-Times More Cash To Senators Who Oppose Green New Deal
The 88 senators who have declined to support the the Green New Deal have collected close to $59 million, according...
Amazon To Pay $0 In Federal Taxes In 2019
Amazon almost doubled its profits from $5.6 billion in 2017 to $11.2 billion in 2018, but the company isn’t expected to...
Average Tax Refund Down 8.4 Percent As Money Under Republican Tax Plan Goes Into Accounts of Billionaires
Average tax refunds were down last week 8.4 percent for the first week of the tax season over the same...
AOC Exposes The Dark Side Of Politics In 5 Incredible Minutes
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) exposed some of the biggest flaws and loopholes in campaign finance laws this week ― and she...
University Of Delaware Sets Up Courses To Train Offshore Wind Professionals
Last fall, the University of Delaware, in partnership with the Energy and Climate Academy of Denmark, announced it was creating a...
Trump’s Vacations To Mar-A-Lago Cost Taxpayers $13.6M, Government Report Finds
President Trump and his entourage cost taxpayers a combined $13.6 million for just four trips over one month to his...
One of America’s richest families made huge profits from the nation’s opioid crisis
A court ruling Monday in Massachusetts will expose details about one of America’s richest families and their connection to the...
Billionaires Whine About Elizabeth Warren’s Proposed Billionaire Tax
I suppose this Morning Joe mini-discussion is the closest thing we’re going to get in terms of a discussion of...
Solar Panel Installer and Wind Turbine Tech Are Fastest Growing Occupations In US
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fastest growing occupation in the US is solar PV installer, with a projected...
Airport workers ‘shut down the shutdown’ — and that should scare Trump: Robert Reich
While Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is getting much-deserved for her handling of the shutdown President Donald Trump instigated...
Progressive Democrats Attempt to Resurrect FDR’s Second Bill Of Rights
Most Americans do not realize it but January 11th 2019 marks 75 years since President Rosevelt, proposed free college education,...
World’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%
The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own...
Regions where US drug companies pushed their product were hit the hardest by opioid epidemic
A new study has found that areas of America hit hardest by the opioids epidemic were the top regions where...
Trump’s economy is great for billionaires, not for working people: Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump tells us the US economy is “absolutely booming”, the “strongest we’ve ever had” and “the greatest in the...
Most Americans Support Ocasio-Cortez’ 70% Marginal Tax Rate Idea
In a blow to conservatives everywhere a new Hill-HarrisX survey supported Ocasio-Cortez’ beliefs and found that most Americans by a...
How workers are winning $15 an hour: by acting like a union
When members of Congress introduced legislation this week raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, it was in...
Big Oil Tries To Kill The Electric Car (Again)
Electric vehicles are getting close to a major tipping point, and it isn’t just fans who are taking notice. The...
American democracy seems rigged because it is: Robert Reich
The most important thing we must do to save our democracy is get big money out of politics. It’s a...
NYC Mayor Unveils Plan To Guarantee Health Care For All New Yorkers
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced a plan to provide health care for New Yorkers who cannot qualify...
Carbon emissions up as Trump gang rolls back climate change work
A new analysis shows US greenhouse gas levels are increasing as the Trump administration unravels efforts to slow climate change. Carbon...
What does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know about tax policy? A lot. — Paul Krugman
I have no idea how well Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will perform as a member of Congress. But her election is already...
Solar Power Jobs Program Developed To Provide Skills For At-Risk Youth
A program has been created by HBI and IREC to help at-risk youth get jobs in the solar power industry. Solar...
The GOP Reboots Its Old Tax and Budget Scam
Get ready to see it on your TV. The GOP is about to kick back into Two Santa Clauses mode...
24 Million Jobs Could Be Created From Meeting Paris Climate Agreement Targets
This month, when diplomats met in Poland to negotiate the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the United States took on...
