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...
Poverty makes people sick. Families in poverty are more likely than wealthy families to get sick, stay sick, and delay...
It won’t be a burden. It will be a relief. And for the large majority of those living in the...
Betterment / Fighting Back / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published October 29, 2019
California Congressman Jimmy Gomez on Friday introduced legislation in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House that aims to address “our country’s rapidly...
Betterment / Corruption / Fighting Back
by onepercenttakers · Published September 17, 2019 · Last modified September 18, 2019
Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat corruption in U.S. politics with...
Embracing the Green New Deal as “our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of...
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and projections from the Projections Managing Partnership, Yahoo Finance has charted which jobs...
Last week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, along with 66 House representatives and 10 Senators, introduced their highly-laudedGreen New...
Last year’s downturn in solar installations put a damper on the clean energy party in the US, but that’s only...
Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-WA) recently introduced Medicare for All Act of 2019 is a powerful and comprehensive plan to make...
California’s investor-owned utilities are preparing to spend up to $100 million this year bringing solar to low income buildings, with...
Last fall, the University of Delaware, in partnership with the Energy and Climate Academy of Denmark, announced it was creating a...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fastest growing occupation in the US is solar PV installer, with a projected...
Most Americans do not realize it but January 11th 2019 marks 75 years since President Rosevelt, proposed free college education,...
In a blow to conservatives everywhere a new Hill-HarrisX survey supported Ocasio-Cortez’ beliefs and found that most Americans by a...
When members of Congress introduced legislation this week raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, it was in...
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced a plan to provide health care for New Yorkers who cannot qualify...
A program has been created by HBI and IREC to help at-risk youth get jobs in the solar power industry. Solar...
This month, when diplomats met in Poland to negotiate the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the United States took on...
Rachel Gold, an earth sciences student at Brown University, has been too busy with her research into signs of abrupt climate...
The special counsel’s spending on the Russia probe has now exceeded $25 million, according to the Department of Justice, but...
Writing in The Guardian this week, Bill McKibben, the tireless climate activist and founder of 350.org, reports this bit of good news...
Voters in Arkansas and Missouri have approved a ballot initiative that would significantly raise the minimum wage in their states,...
As it turns out, the impact of human activity on the planet and the environment can work both ways. This...
Residents in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tuesday, granting health coverage...
Tony Evers (D), Wisconsin’s state superintendent of public education and a former teacher, won the governor’s race against incumbent Scott...
Republicans would love to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. But they can’t, because Social Security and Medicare are...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) congratulated Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday for announcing he would raise wages to $15 per...
The fossil fuel divestment movement which has so influenced the global economic and energy sectors over the past five years...
The US energy efficiency industry added more new jobs than any other industry in the country’s entire energy sector in...
Climate groups are praising the work of local organizers after California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday legislation committing the state to 100 percent clean electricity...
The solar power nonprofit GRID Alternatives recently celebrated reaching the mark of 9,800 California solar power systems installed for low-income...
A large group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives established a new “Medicare for All” caucus on Thursday morning. This...
Levels of highly toxic mercury contamination in Atlantic bluefin tuna are rapidly declining, according to a new study. That trend does...
Solar industry, renewable energy and environmental justice organizations and advocates applauded a decision today by the California Public Utilities Commission...
Wells Fargo was ordered to pay California employees $97 million for violating the state’s labor laws. Judge Percy Anderson handed...
On Monday, a state judge ordered the Maine Department of Health and Gov. Paul LePage (R) to follow through on a...
Charles French, the president of the Greensboro City Workers’ Union, took a mic and told the crowd to go to...
A new bill aimed at bolstering unions’ power and ending abuses by employers was met with loud cheers in Washington,...
Joining a promising pro-democracy wave, a signature from Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday added New Jersey to the ranks...
A Flushing, Michigan, school district will soon be part of a solar project that is forecast to save the community...
A new study from US researchers has shown that wind and solar power generation could reliably meet 80% of the...
The surprising success of the 2018 Affordable Care Act enrollments in the face of sabotage by the Trump administration was...
WASHINGTON ― In a speech to a liberal health policy conference on Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed new rules to...
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ televised town hall on Tuesday night to promote single-payer health care, or “Medicare for all,” drew a live...
Here is where we are as a planet in 2018: after all of the wars, revolutions and international summits of...
Donald Trump’s desire to pollute America’s skies with millions of tons of poisonous gases from coal-fired generating plants is running...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.